Unemployment in the U.S. due to the effects of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 pandemic could reach the Great Depression of nearly 12 years.
This was announced on Sunday on ABC TV channel by Senior Adviser to the President of the United States Kevin Hassett, reports UNN.
“One shouldn’t hope the situation (with the economy) is really difficult. Our economy is experiencing a great shock”, – admitted Hassett. He did not rule out “the approach of unemployment to the level specified during the Great Depression.
“Suffice it to recall the time of the recession of 2008, when we lost a total of 8.7 million jobs. Now we lose the equivalent of these jobs every ten days”, – said the senior advisor to the President.
Hassett said in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday that the decline in U.S. GDP in the second quarter of this year could be the largest ever recorded in the country’s history.
According to Johns Hopkins University, which carries out calculations based on information from the authorities of countries, WHO and other sources, the U.S. recorded more than 939.2 thousand cases of infection with coronavirus, 53 934 people died.
Recall that the U.S. Congress approved a package of anti-crisis measures worth almost $500 billion.