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Where does unemployment insurance go the furthest?

Americans have filed at least 52 million unemployment insurance claims since March.

To support the newly unemployed, Congress passed the CARES Act, a $2 trillion federal package enacted to boost the economy. Under one provision, any employee who lost a job due to the pandemic would receive $600 in additional unemployment insurance, on top of state-administered unemployment compensation.

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