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Louisiana reshuffles federal virus aid to avoid losing it

by Melinda Deslatte
| December 19, 2020 12:06 AM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers Friday reshuffled $16 million in federal coronavirus aid to unemployment payments and mobile devices for schoolchildren, in a rush to spend all the dollars before an end-of-year congressional deadline.

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