U.S. Unemployment Offices Siting on Mountain of Pending Claims

Reuters, Mar. 31, 2020–Lucia Mutikani, Heather Timmons
Last week’s record-setting U.S. jobless claims number will be quickly surpassed, economists and state officials predict, as local labor offices digest a pile of pending applications and the new stimulus bill extends benefits to the self-employed.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-jobless/u-s-unemployment-offices-sitting-on-mountain-of-pending-claims-idUSKBN21I222