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Governor announces relief money for businesses, unemployed

by Associated Press
| August 12, 2020 4:03 PM

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s governor announced additional coronavirus relief money for state businesses as the pandemic stretches into its fifth month, a mask mandate for schools in nearly half of the state’s counties and said the state will begin paying the extra $400 in weekly unemployment benefits that President Donald Trump announced over the weekend.

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