Pay no attention to Friday’s jobs numbers

April 3, 2020

William Rodgers, professor of public policy and chief economist at the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, said he expected the unemployment rate to soon surpass the Great Recession high of 10%. 

“What is so chilling is that that took several years to get to,” Rodgers said. “We are potentially going to almost double that in one to two months.”

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