Resume During the 15 weeks from mid-March to the end of June, Americans filed nearly 49 million new claims for unemployment benefits.

As many as 7.7 million U.S. workers have lost jobs that provided employer-sponsored insurance because of COVID-19. Nearly seven million dependents also were covered by employer-sponsored insurance through these jobs, and manufacturing workers were most affected.

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