Layoffs in the US running at almost a million a day

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

Don't see a source for the million a day figure?

Looks like they're taking data from Minnesota, extrapolating and then taking a 'conservative' estimate based on some finger in the air math.

Every mathematician knows that extrapolation is basically lying.

No 1.5 trillion dollars for them...