Extra unemployment aid expires as coronavirus threatens new states

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Public health officials are warning that the coronavirus poses new risks to parts of the Midwest and South.

With the $600 boost about to end, Congress must decide whether to let it die, continue it, or cut back the payment levels.Standard unemployment benefits often leave recipients with poverty-level incomes, but they are sure to continue, even as states wrestle with diminishing unemployment trust funds.based on a portion of their previous earnings. The maximum amounts vary widely, from $235 a week in Mississippi to $1,234 in Massachusetts.

Aside from the pandemic’s economic damage, the virus itself threatens to overwhelm parts of the country that have been relatively unscathed.White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx warned in a television interview that the surge of cases in the South and Southwest could make its way north.

 

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Time to cancel the government funded riot pay

Everyone knows that the current Administration doesn't give one damn about the American people vote in November if you've got any damn sense at all

Moscow Mitch and Brainless Leader are using the pandemic to force lower wages on people. Why do you think they came up with 'do something else'? They want to force people to take low paying jobs.

Good , maybe they’ll go back to work.

FailedPresident

As it should. It was absolutely ridiculous to begin with.

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