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Louisiana: $300 federal jobless aid to start next week

by Associated Press
| August 18, 2020 5:06 PM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana should start issuing checks for $300 in weekly federal coronavirus unemployment aid next week, but as many as 87,000 people receiving state unemployment may not be eligible for the federal assistance, Gov. John Bel Edwards said Tuesday.

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