PHILADELPHIA - As more services shut down in Pennsylvania due to the novel coronavirus, the state is seeing a spike in people filing for unemployment compensation.
The Department of Labor and Industry said unemployment compensation claims exceeded 50,000 on Monday, and Tuesday’s filings were on course to exceed that number. FULL COVERAGE: CORONAVIRUS In the entire first week of March, the state received barely 12,000 claims, according to federal data. “It’s going to be a big mess, a double mess: illness and unemployment,” said John Dodds, director of the nonprofit Philadelphia Unemployment Project, which has been flooded with calls from people who were laid off. RELATED COVERAGE: Advertisement Wolf orders shutdown of all non-essential
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