Extra unemployment aid expires as virus threatens new states
LOS ANGELES — As public health officials warned Friday that the coronavirus posed new risks to parts of the Midwest and South, enhanced federal payments that helped avert financial ruin for millions of unemployed Americans were set to expire — leaving threadbare safety nets offered by individual states to catch them.Since early in the pandemic, the federal government has added $600 to the weekly unemployment checks that states send. That increase ends this week, and […]
