The two companies partnering with DHHS for contract tracing have direct ties to the state health director, Elizabeth Tilson.
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The April jobs report shows the unemployment rate hit a record high of 14.7%, taking out a decade of job growth in one month
From The Wall Street Journal:“The U.S. jobless rate eclipsed the previous record rate of 10.8% for data tracing back to 1948, though it was well below the 25% rate economists estimate was reached during the Great Depression. The job losses due to business closures triggered by the pandemic produced by far the steepest monthly decline on records back to 1939. By comparison, nearly 2 million jobs were lost in one month in 1945, at the end of World War II.”
“Mr. Kudlow said the administration is continuing to have informal conversations with lawmakers, noting that he and Kevin Hassett, another economic adviser to the president, spoke by phone with several dozen House lawmakers on Thursday.”