This is a HeadGum Podcast. I don't know what to think I don't know what to say

and that's all right

yeah that's okay

I don't know anything.

Hello, welcome to Factually.

I'm Adam Conover and I'm still here. I'm still in my house just like I hope you are in your house. I am washing my hands.

Just like I hope you are washing your hands. I'm wearing my mask just like I hope you're wearing yours. We're still

doing this and it seems like we're going to be doing this for a while.

buckle up because we are in the middle of an unprecedented global public health crisis and

we're starting to realize that that's just the beginning of the bad news because we are also

now in the middle of an unprecedented global economic crisis.

When people have to stay home to stop a rampaging murderous virus,

less people work. In fact, jobs that seem solid just weeks ago have evaporated. Not to get too technical

with the economic terminology, but the national employment picture is fucked right now.

It's really grim. I'm sorry. Let me break it down. Over the last decade, as the

economy clawed its way out of the Great Recession and financial crisis of 2008, America

created around 22 million jobs.

Well, it has only taken a month, a month, to erase nearly all of them.

Unemployment was at 4.4% in March, but some expect this April's unemployment rate could be 17%.

Again, that is a month's difference, and that is higher than at any point since the Great Depression. Remember the Great Depression?

You know, it was a global economic cataclysm that led to untold suffering and

transformed the relationship between American citizens and their government?

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