USA records the highest unemployment rate in 70 years. Millions of Americans have filed for ‘jobless benefits’ since the coronavirus shut down as bills keep coming despite the lockdown. The United States of America has recorded its highest unemployment rate in 70 years after the official unemployment rate rose to 14.7%.
This week high-end retailer Nieman Marcus became the first major department store group to file for bankruptcy as pressure builds on similar retailers to downsize and reorganise their business models as individual stories of hardship become all the more commonplace.
While fears abound that the partial reopening of economies could lead to a spike in all key indicators including death, the US President Donald Trump has however struck an optimistic tone on unemployment saying the number will eventually come down. He said:
The number will start coming down in an appropriate time, whatever that is, I am viewing the third quarter as being a very important quarter because as I said, that will be a transition.
I think you could almost say transition and greatness because I think next year we are gonna have a phenomenal year, a phenomenal year economically. Coronavirus-induced lockdowns have resulted in an economic recession globally, a situation that is forcing some states to slowly reopen their economies.
Source – Pindula News
In other news – MDC A wins court case as High Court orders govt to pay MDC Alliance within 7 days
MDC A wins court case as High Court orders govt to pay MDC Alliance within 7 days. The High court has provisionally ordered Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi to pay the MDC Alliance led by Chamisa funds from the Political Party Finance Act within 7 days.
Ziyambi has previously said partly will release the money to the Khupe led camp after the Supreme court judgement that declared Nelson Chamisa an illegitimate MDC leader…continue reading.
