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Nearly 3 million Americans filed for unemployment last week

Nearly 3 million Americans filed new unemployment benefit claims last week, according to the Department of Labor on Thursday. That means more than 36 million workers have filed for unemployment benefits in the past eight weeks. CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger explains the significance of the numbers.
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