The Labor Department provided the material Thursday for what Axios' Felix Salmon called "the most stunning chart of this crisis yet — the number of people filing for unemployment spiked to 3.3 million last week, a number unprecedented in U.S. history." The actual number of workers affected by the coronavirus crisis is much larger — lots more Americans took pay cuts or reductions in work hours, and the numbers don't count gig workers. But it's a stunning jump the same, with huge, unknown ramifications, and The
New York Times found an arresting way to illustrated it on the cover of Friday's newspaper.
The Wall Street Journal had the same idea, executed with slightly less aplomb.
The New York Daily News, meanwhile, did its Daily News thing.