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Arkansas asks $300-a-week COVID-19 jobless benefit extension

by Associated Press
| August 19, 2020 1:27 PM

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas is seeking $300 in additional weekly federal unemployment benefits, Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Wednesday as the state reported 729 new confirmed coronavirus cases.

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