It's Friday, May 1st. I'm Achila Hughes.

And I'm Gideon Resnick and this is what the day kicking off what could be our final month in core.

I honestly don't even want to get my hopes up.

Okay, just don't say stuff like that to me.

I regret that I said it because I don't believe it.

On today's show, as states reopen, we check in on people going back to work for the first time

since lockdown, then some headlines, but first, the latest.

We now have updated unemployment numbers.

In the past six weeks, more than 30 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits.

And not to sound like a broker-derecord here,

but that's just the people who have been successful in applying.

Those numbers are likely far higher and are expected to climb in the coming weeks,

which is horrible news for us all.

Rent is due today, and no rent relief bill has been passed for millions of Americans who are

renting. Achila, what is the word on rent strikes this month?

All right, so they're very much happening.

So here in LA, a group called the Los Angeles Tenets Union has garnered more than 8,000 members

with more than half of them joining between March and April, and they expect that at least

that many people in the area are going to be for going rent for May.

Their campaign is called Food Not Rent because they are telling their members, you know,

choose survival, choose to have money for essentials over paying rent right now at this very moment.

In New York City, often mocked mayor Bill DeBlasio has called for rent freezes,

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