10% of US labor force out of work

The Department of Labor said Thursday that 6.6 million Americans filed for unemployment claims last week as efforts to limit the spread of the coronavirus continue to slow the economy.

The new figures mean that about 16 million people have applied for unemployment in the past three weeks.

THE NUMBERS COMING IN JUSTMINUTES AGO.6-POINT-6 MILLION AMERICANSAPPLIED FOR UNEMPLOYMENTBENEFITS LAST WEEK.THAT'S ABOUT THE SAME AS THEWEEK BEFORE.LAYOFFS ARE ON THE RISE IN THEMIDST OF THE CORONAVIRUS.ECONOMISTS HAVE PREDICTED -- ASMANY AS 20-MILLION JOBS WILL BELOST BY THE END OF APRIL.AT LEAST 81 PEOPLE HAVE NOWDIED FROM THE CORONAVIRUS IN