{"id":9569,"date":"2020-04-04T16:22:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T21:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9569"},"modified":"2020-04-15T16:27:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T21:27:08","slug":"news-press-now-covid-19-leaves-economy-in-unique-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/04\/news-press-now-covid-19-leaves-economy-in-unique-position\/","title":{"rendered":"News-Press NOW: COVID-19 leaves economy in &#8216;unique&#8217; position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"author-popup-8ea91f2e-1a70-11e9-868f-2f7463979ba9-asset-939b5a60-74fb-11ea-9eca-9bced23bfc80\" class=\"tnt-byline asset-byline\" title=\"\" data-original-title=\"\" aria-describedby=\"popover818555\">By Zach Fisher, News-Press NOW, <\/span>Apr 4, 2020<\/p>\n<p>The current state of the United States and global economy is in limbo. The coronavirus pandemic is causing businesses, big and small, to lay off workers to keep afloat.<\/p>\n<p>This past week, a record number of Americans filed for unemployment benefits \u2014 6.6 million, according to the Department of Labor. The week before saw 3.3 million unemployment claims, symbolizing that things are looking to get worse, economically, before they get better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe common comparison right now is how different is this going to be than the Great Depression,\u201d Dr. Kara Grant, an assistant professor of economics at º¬Ðß²ÝÉçÇø, said. \u201cBut at the same time it is very unique.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspressnow.com\/coronavirus\/covid-19-leaves-economy-in-unique-position\/article_939b5a60-74fb-11ea-9eca-9bced23bfc80.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">newspressnow.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Zach Fisher, News-Press NOW, Apr 4, 2020 The current state of the United States and global economy is in limbo. The coronavirus pandemic is causing businesses, big and small, to lay off workers to keep afloat. This past week, a record number of Americans filed for unemployment benefits \u2014 6.6 million, according to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,970],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9570,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9569\/revisions\/9570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}