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A devastating jobs report for April will show virus's impact

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The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked widespread unemployment, but these companies are still hiring. WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S.

government on Friday is poised to report the worst set of jobs numbers since record-keeping began in 1948, a snapshot of the devastating damage the coronavirus outbreak has inflicted on the economy.

The unemployment rate for April could reach 16% or more, according to economists surveyed by the data provider FactSet. Twenty-one million jobs may have been lost.

If so, it would mean that nearly all the job growth in the 11 years since the Great Recession ended had vanished in one month. RELATED: CoronavirusNOW.com, FOX launches national hub for COVID-19 news and updates Even those numbers won't fully capture the scope of

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