White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett told ABC News that unemployment levels could approach those seen during the Great Depression.
Hassett added “the next couple of months are going to be terrible.”
He added: “During the Great Recession we lost 8.7m jobs in the whole thing. Now we’re losing that many every 10 days, so the lift for economic policy makers is an extraordinary one.”


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