NEWS BRIEFS: More apply for unemployment in last 3 weeks than last year

Staff reports  |  More than 180,000 people in South Carolina have applied for unemployment benefits since mid-March than filed in all of 2019.  It’s a stark reminder, Charleston City Paper editor Sam Spence writes, of the crushing economic impact of physical distancing measures in South Carolina to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 infection.

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