Pandemic and accusations of slavery at sea in the leisure demands answers from china after the deaths of fishermen working on chinese boats. First begin in the us where numbers released china employment has surged in april the biggest in close to 90 year tens of millions of jobs were wiped out right across the country as coronavirus lockdowns bats of the economy unemployment skyrocketed to 14. 7 percent it was 4. 4 percent in march in april 20 and a half 1000000 jobs were lost the worst results in the Great Depression which began in 1929 far exceeds the 2008 global recession when 8700000 jobs were wiped out its going now to our White House Correspondent kimberly. So kimberly its another day and another round of depressing numbers and it comes to employment right. Yeah not unexpected but certainly not what this white house wants to hear at the jobs all of the jobs created 6 donald trump came into office and even the ones created by the Previous Administration barack obama those have all
As. We read in the u. S. Where unemployment skyrocketed in april saying the biggest spike in close to 90 years tens of millions of jobs were wiped out across the country this coronavirus lockdowns battered the economy lets take a look at those figures for unemployment surged to 14. 7 percent it was just 4. 4 percent back in march 20 point 5000000 jobs were lost in april along the worst losses since the Great Depression which began in 1929 and it far exceeds the 2008 global recession where 8700000 jobs were wiped out the White House Correspondent Kimberly Hawk and joins me now kimberly just put these unemployment figures into context for us. Well they certainly are not what this administration wanted to hear and i can tell you the u. S. President is trying to put a positive spin on these numbers acknowledging that they are unacceptable and also well he didnt address it directly certainly we have to point out that these numbers reflect all of the gains that he created in terms of jobs th