'I'm squeaking by right now': voices of America's unemployment crisis

The coronavirus pandemic has devastated the US economy, costing 42 million people to file for unemployment insurance

The coronavirus pandemic has wrought destruction on US workers at a scale and speed that is almost unfathomable.

It was only in February that Donald Trump was touting an unemployment level of 3.5%, a 50-year low. The unemployment rate dropped on Friday to 13.3% - but is still at its highest level since the 1980s - and many economists fear the real figure is far higher.