For the jobless, there’s no secure safety net
Jul 24, 2020
3 minutes
By Alana Semuels
PHOTOGRAPH BY NICK OXFORD
The Brief is reported by Mariah Espada, Alejandro de la Garza, Mélissa Godin, Suyin Haynes, Anna Purna Kambhampaty, Ciara Nugent, Billy Perrigo, Madeline Roache and Olivia B. Waxman
S MILLIONS OF AMERICAN JOBS DISAPPEARED over the past few months, in some cases forever, there was one consolation for the newly unemployed. They could receive $600 a week more than usual in unemployment benefits, part of an impromptu safety net created by Congress in the early days of the pandemic to supplement the often meager benefits
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