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States strain to carry out Trump order on unemployment aid

by Associated Press
| August 11, 2020 12:03 AM

RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) — Governors and state labor department officials were scrambling Monday to determine whether they could implement President Donald Trump’s executive order to partially extend unemployment assistance payments to millions of Americans struggling to find work in the pandemic-scarred economy.

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