‘Bills or food’: crisis mounts for unemployed Americans

Americans struggling with broken state unemployment systems throughout the US are still fighting to obtain benefits, as utility shut off moratoriums are expiring and evictions continue despite a federal suspension. The coronavirus pandemic has devastated the US jobs market. Some 787,000 people filed for benefits last week – roughly equal to the population of Seattle. The figure is sharply down from the peak in April, when 6.6 million people…