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Unemployment Rate Falls to 13.3% as States Reopen During Coronavirus

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Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaThe economy gained 2.5 million jobs in May, while the unemployment rate dropped to 13.3%, according to the Labor Department.The slight improvement in an otherwise bleak economic picture was due to the reopening of businesses in several states.

Unemployment levels leapt to 14.7% in April, as the coronavirus pandemic ground American life to a standstill. That number and the May results surpassed the worst figure of the Great Recession, when unemployment topped out at 10% in 2009.

Many of the gains came in the leisure and hospitality sector, where reopened restaurants saw job levels increase by 1.2 million, following losses of 7.5 million in April and 743,000 in March.The number of unemployed.

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