COVID-19: Highest Unemployment Levels Since Great Depression

On May 8, 2020, many news sites posted articles saying that COVID-19 has created the highest level of unemployment in the US since the Great Depression. Derek Thompson at The Atlantic wrote an article called “It’s the Pandemic, Stupid” that calls the level of unemployment “record-breaking in every conceivable and terrible way.” 

Social media users were quick to pick up on the claim.