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For the jobless, there’s no secure safety net

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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