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NC lawmakers want Cooper to seek Trump's extended benefits

by Associated Press
| August 11, 2020 4:03 PM

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's Republican legislative leaders asked Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper on Tuesday to get on board with extending unemployment benefits for workers displaced by the coronavirus pandemic that President Donald Trump has offered in an executive order.

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