The damage to the job market is laid bare as applications for unemployment benefits surged by 70,000 last week, something that's on Lee expected to get worse.

ABC is chief business and economics correspondent Rebecca Jarvis has the details.

Tonight, the Corona virus emergency is taking its toll on the American workforce.

Cover nineteen's an economic tsunami in San Francisco, a city under orders to shelter in place housekeeper Larry Luca Roomba hasn't worked in two weeks.

I'm a single mom off tree.

I really don't know what I'm gonna use to put food on the table.

Across the country, unemployment claims are soaring in Pennsylvania.

121,000 claims in two days.

Minnesota, handling 2000 claims an hour this week vs 40 an hour just last week.

And in Massachusetts, nearly 20,000 claims on Monday.

More than all of February among the hardest hit the service industry.

At least 21 states have closed restaurants and bars to died in customers.

Christie Oaks is a server in Boston.

Because we do work on tips, a lot of us are left with little to no income.

By one estimate, more than nine million people could be affected just by bar and restaurant shutdowns alone.

Our thanks to Rebecca Jarvis.

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