Expanded $600 unemployment benefit expires after lawmakers fail to reach deal

Expanded unemployment benefits for more than 25 million Americans will expire on Friday after negotiations between lawmakers on Capitol Hill failed. Frenzied talks between the White House, Democrats and Republicans on a fourth wave of coronavirus stimulus have been unsuccessful as conservative lawmakers pushed for a large reduction to the $600 jobless payments supplement for...

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