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August 7, 2020

Laid-off workers endure loss of $600 aid

  • At least 1 million people have sought jobless aid for 20 straight weeks.
    • By SARAH SKIDMORE SELL and PAUL WISEMAN
    AP Business Writers

    An unemployed makeup artist with two toddlers and a disabled husband needs help with food and rent. A hotel manager says his unemployment has deepened his anxiety and kept him awake at night. A dental hygienist, pregnant with her third child, is struggling to afford diapers and formula.

    Around the country, across industries and occupations, millions of Americans thrown out of work because of the coronavirus are straining to afford the basics now that an extra $600 a week in federal unemployment benefits has expired.


     
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