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KaoruAoiShiho
Don't see a source for the million a day figure?
kjaftaedi
Looks like they're taking data from Minnesota, extrapolating and then taking a 'conservative' estimate based on some finger in the air math.
raxxorrax
Every mathematician knows that extrapolation is basically lying.
elliekelly
This headline is pretty misleading IMO. The article cites the number of people who have filed for unemployment in Minnesota over a two-day period and then quotes from this[1] tweet from a Washington Post reporter:

> Good Lord. In the past two days, 31,000 Minnesotans have applied for unemployment insurance. Minnesota is roughly 1/60th of the U.S. population. If other states had the same rate, it would be 1.8 million.

[1] https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1240123879491801092