
Record Economic Plunge, Bleak Job Numbers Reveal Virus Toll
WASHINGTON (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic sent the U.S. economy plunging by a record-shattering 32.9% annual rate last quarter.
It is still inflicting damage across the country, squeezing already struggling businesses and forcing a wave of layoffs that shows no sign of abating.
The economy’s collapse in the April-June quarter was stunning in its speed and depth.
The government’s estimate of the second-quarter fall in the gross domestic product has no comparison since records began in 1947.
So steep was the economic fall that most analysts expect a sharp rebound for the current July-September period.
But with coronavirus cases rising in the majority of states and the Republican Senate proposing to scale back aid to the unemployed, the pain could worsen

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