Bars, restaurants and stores are boarded up as 75 million Americans are told to stay home, three million prepare to file for unemployment and Donald Trump warns of a nationwide two-week quarantine to slow the spread of coronavirus
Three million Americans will file unemployment claims next week, marking the highest level of unemployment ever seen in US history according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Bars, restaurants, stores and casinos lie boarded up across the US as the nation’s once heaving cities have turned into ghost towns after state-wide mandates have ordered one in five Americans to stay at home
President Trump warned that he may throw the entire nation into lockdown for two weeks, shutting all businesses across the 52 states
In the last 24 hours, California, New York, Connecticut and Illinois issued the most extreme measures to date, ordering 100 percent of their non-essential workforces not to go to work
Economists warn the US is headed for recession, with Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist for MUFG, warning that the US will turn from ‘the best economy in history to the worst in not even two months’
President Trump has continued to claim the economy will quickly recover, saying it will ‘come back really fast’ like a ‘rocket ship’ in a press conference on Thursday
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By RACHEL SHARP
DAILYMAIL.COM
21 March 2020
Three million Americans will file unemployment claims next week, marking the highest level of unemployment ever seen in US history, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to shutters businesses and see workers turfed out of their jobs overnight.
Bars, restaurants, stores and casinos lie boarded up across the US as the nation’s once heaving cities have turned into ghost towns after state-wide mandates have ordered one in five Americans to stay at home.
Fears are ramping up around how many Americans will find themselves on the breadline, struggling to survive and feed their families, as President Trump warned that the pandemic is escalating to a level that he may throw the entire nation into lockdown for two weeks.
In the last 24 hours, California, New York, Connecticut and Illinois issued the most extreme measures to date, ordering 100 percent of their non-essential workforces not to go to work.
New Jersey is expected to issue a similar order Saturday, mandating all citizens to hunker down in their homes for the foreseeable future.
This has left 75 million Americans – one in five of the population – ordered to ‘stay home’ in desperate efforts by state governors to slow the spread of the virus.
This figure is expected to rise further, with Trump reportedly mulling a plan that would call out the National Guard to enforce a two-week quarantine of all Americans.
Trump would require all to ‘stay at home’ in a developing plan which won’t be announced until next week, a source told the Washington Examiner.
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