The United States is rapidly losing jobs, which could reach the level of the Great Depression, the adviser to the American president, Kevin Hassett, News Front reports with reference writes Gazeta.ru.
According to the official, at the moment, the economy of the United States is experiencing “the biggest shock”.
“The situation is very difficult. This is the largest negative shock our economy has ever experienced. We will see the unemployment rate approaching the level that we saw during the Great Depression. It’s enough to recall the time of the 2008 recession, when we lost a total of 8, 7 million jobs. Now we are losing a comparable number of jobs every ten days”, – an adviser to the American leader on Fox News said.
According to the latest data, about 940 thousand patients with coronavirus have been identified in the USA, almost 54 thousand people have died.