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Edwards: Louisiana to tap into $300 federal unemployment aid

by Associated Press
| August 13, 2020 2:03 PM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana will accept President Donald Trump's partial extension of federal unemployment aid amid the coronavirus pandemic, though without increasing the state's payout to jobless workers, Gov. John Bel Edwards said Thursday.

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