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Idaho unemployment numbers trigger rare extended benefits

by Associated Press
| June 24, 2020 3:27 PM

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — So many Idaho workers lost jobs so quickly this year due to the coronavirus pandemic that an unemployment extended benefits program will go into effect that was last used during the Great Recession in 2009, the state Department of Labor said Wednesday.

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