State officials warn it would take 8-20 weeks to implement Trump’s proposed ‘sliding scale’ for unemployment benefits
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The White House wants to end the $600 weekly unemployment checks Americans’ have received during the pandemic and replace them with payments of up to 70{09c3c849cf64d23af04bfef51e68a1f749678453f0f72e4bb3c75fcb14e04d49} of a worker’s previous wages.
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But the National Association of State Workforce Agencies warned Congress it