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Re:3.28M file for U.S. jobless benefits by hrpnk on Thursday March 26, 2020 @08:52AM (#22693004)
Do we know the weekly throughput of processing unemployment requests?
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Re:3.28M file for U.S. jobless benefits by mcphilip on Thursday March 26, 2020 @09:03AM (#22693110)
The rate is hard to determine since it’s per state. There have been many reports of online systems going down and phone queues being insanely long:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/business/coronavirus-unem...

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