The loss of 20.5 million jobs in April was largely as expected based on the tsunami of jobless claims and, although the unemployment rate only climbed to 14.7%, slightly below expectations, that was principally because the BLS is still having problems with misclassifying absent workers. Without that distortion, the unemployment rate would have been close to 20% last month.
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