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Unemployment rate rockets past 15%; Super Bowl ring nets $1M

by Associated Press
| May 22, 2020 12:27 PM

BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts unemployment rate soared to 15.1% in April — up from about 2.8% in March — as the state’s efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus shuttered wide swaths of the economy, the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development announced Friday.

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