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The Daily 202: ‘Robbing Peter to pay Paul.’ Congress chooses checks over other relief that might help economy more.
James Hohmann
We must not grow numb to the human and economic carnage of the contagion.
Wednesday was the deadliest day yet of the pandemic: At least 3,367 of our fellow Americans succumbed to covid-19. At least 233,651 new cases were confirmed nationwide, and the United States set another record for hospitalizations – breaking the record set the day before.
As we enter what public health experts fear may be the darkest winter in American history, the Labor Department announced Thursday morning that 885,000 Americans applied for jobless benefits for the first time last week, up from 862,000 the week before. These numbers are not as bad as during the lockdowns of the spring, but they are worse than the worst jobs reports of the Great Recession. In addition, 455,037 Americans filed initial claims last week for Pandemic Une ....

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