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Month: June 2021

Louisiana will be the first Democrat-led state to end $300-a-week pandemic unemployment benefit early

By Tami Luhby, CNN Louisiana will stop paying the $300-a-week federal boost to pandemic unemployment benefits at the end of July — the first Democrat-led state to drop the assistance. Gov. John Bel Edwards on Wednesday signed a bill that terminates the federal enhancement early in exchange for increasing the maximum state unemployment benefit by

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