Coronavirus job losses are hitting these 5 states the hardest

The latest swath of applications brings the total amount of jobless claims to more than 38 million over the past nine weeks, nearly wiping out the 20 million jobs added over the last decade by a two-to-one margin. A Yahoo Finance review of jobless claims data from the U.S. Department of Labor shows that Georgia and other states in the South have been particularly hard hit since the coronavirus pandemic brought the country’s economy to a grinding…