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Evers calls special session to modernize unemployment system

by Todd Richmond
| January 13, 2021 8:27 AM

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans balked Wednesday at Gov. Tony Evers' call for a special legislative session next week to pass his plan for upgrading the state's unemployment benefits system in the face of a massive backlog of pandemic-induced claims.

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