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    As $600-a-week benefit nears end, White House suggests short-term unemployment bill

    by Laura King, Los Angeles Times Jul 26, 2020 3 minutes

    WASHINGTON - With a $600-a-week unemployment benefit expiring this week, senior White House aides continued to suggest Sunday that a jobless benefit that was too generous would discourage people from going back to work.

    The officials said a short-term stopgap bill might be needed to keep federal benefits from expiring entirely while Congress sought agreement on a broader package.

    But congressional Democrats, noting that they passed a relief bill in May that had been sitting in the Republican-controlled Senate, chided

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