Monday, March 23, 2020

St. Louis Fed Chief: Unemployment Could Rise to 30%

April 1940: A line of men queuing for a meal outside the city mission in Dubuque, Iowa. (Photo by John Vachon/Library Of Congress/Getty Images)

The unemployment rate in the U.S. could hit 30 percent, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said in Bloomberg News interview.

“This is a planned, organized partial shutdown of the U.S. economy in the second quarter. The overall goal is to keep everyone, households and businesses, whole,” Bullard said. “It is a huge shock and we are trying to cope with it and keep it under control.”

That would be the highest rate of unemployment since the Great Depression.

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