As millions more go unemployed, AOC proposes a work strike, and Andrew Cuomo proposes that people get jobs in essential industries.

We learned that the first American death could have been weeks earlier than previously supposed,

and President Trump undercuts Georgia's governor on reopening.

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So the continuing debate in American society is how, whether to, what we're going to do to

reopen because the fact is that the economic fallout from coronavirus is absolutely devastating.

There's a new report out today.

4.4 million more workers have now filed for unemployment.

So we are now up to 27 million workers in the past month and a half, five weeks, filing for

unemployment. The relentless increase in the jobless has intensified the debate over one to

lift restrictions according to the New York Times. State agencies are scrambling to handle

the overwhelming flood of filings as well as set a set of federal eligibility

rules instituted to deal with the crisis. A lot of these offices are understaffed. In a survey,

the Pew Research Center released on Tuesday 52% of low-income households below $37,500 a year for a

family of three, said someone in the household had lost a job because of coronavirus compared with

32% of upper-income families. That's people who earn over $112,600. Forty-two percent of families

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