Another 4.4 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits in the week ending April 18th, putting the five-week tally at 26 million. To put that astounding number into perspective, it has taken just five weeks to sideline the same number of workers as jobs created since 2009.
Read MoreNone of us wants to lose that ingrained optimism, it is one of the wonders of being human. But amid the pandemic, it is instructive to look back and forward to change what we do, how we think and what we say, as credible information emerges.
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