Released: August 11, 2020

Without a $600 weekly benefit, jobless Americans face bleak choices

Source: Ben Casselman and Gillian Friedman - N.Y. Times (Paid Registration)

For many of the 30 million Americans relying on unemployment benefits, it could already be too late to prevent lasting financial harm. Without the extra $600 a week, which ran out at the end of July, they will need to get by on regular state unemployment benefits, which often total a few hundred dollars a week or less. For many families, that will not be enough to prevent eviction, hunger or mounting debt that will make it harder to climb out of the hole.

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