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Analysis: Louisiana's unemployment trust fund running dry

by Associated Press
| August 3, 2020 12:03 AM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's unemployment trust fund, a healthy $1.1 billion account before the coronavirus pandemic, is on track to run out of money by mid-September, with hundreds of thousands of people out of work and collecting benefits because of the outbreak.

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