When you're unemployed, there's only three days that matter.

Yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

I honestly, half the time I don't even know what day it is.

Every day feels the same.

In this pandemic, tens of millions of Americans have suddenly, almost without warning, lost their jobs.

This morning, we got another rough weekly jobs report, another 3.2 million Americans filed jobless claims.

I'm talking unemployment.

Add that to the last six weeks, and the number is over 33 million.

Tomorrow, we're going to get the April jobs report, and I assure you it is going to be a bad one.

These numbers indicate that roughly 20% of the American workforce is out of work.

Far higher than what we saw in the recession of 2008, when 10% of the US workforce was out of a job.

And many experts believe that current unemployment claims are an undercount.

Because millions of Americans have tried to file for unemployment, but either couldn't get through or found the process too difficult.

The fact is, unemployment could be approaching levels not seen since the Great Depression.

But this isn't just an economic crisis.

Everybody's talking about the job numbers, the unemployed numbers, how millions of Americans are out of work, and that is going to translate into a mental health crisis.

I'm Tremendly, and this is Into America.

Today, a look at what happens when an economic crisis intensifies a mental health crisis.

Even before the coronavirus outbreak, we knew the effects of joblessness on mental health.

Research shows that suicide rates increase during economic downturns.

Now, just a few months into this pandemic, federal crisis hotlines are reporting a spike in calls.

And according to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey, nearly half of Americans say this pandemic is harming their mental health.

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