“He told me something surprising, for me anyway … which is we usually have about 40,000 people — average — over the last couple of years on unemployment compensation. That has been a pretty good time," Lamont said. “Usually, when a recession comes in a place like Connecticut, maybe the numbers go up to 5,000 people a week applying for unemployment comp. [Monday], 10,000 people applied to the Department of Labor for unemployment compensation. It gives you an idea of the scale of what we’re trying to work."