TRENTON, N.J. – Another 104,139 first time unemployment claims arrived in Trenton for the week ending April 18th, bringing New Jersey new claims total since March 1st to a staggering 875,926, almost 10% of the state’s total population. The country as a whole has shed 26.5 million jobs in the last 5 weeks, more than 3-times the number of jobs lost during the “Great Recession.”
Click here for the N.J. Department of Labor’s report.
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