US jobless claims hit new record

Published: April 2, 2020, 9:17 p.m.

Fresh claims for unemployment benefit in the United States have more than doubled in a week, as the labour market has been hit by the coronavirus pandemic. Also in the programme: can Venezuela cope with a significant outbreak? And Noam Chomsky on a radical solution to the economic shock. (Picture: A spike in a graph from the US bureau of Labor Statistics. Credit: BBC)