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Arkansas lawmakers approve COVID-19 fund as virus cases rise

by Associated Press
| March 27, 2020 2:03 PM

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas lawmakers voted Friday to create a $173 million rainy day fund to combat coronavirus and to prevent some agencies’ budgets from being cut because of the pandemic’s economic fallout.

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