Will additional unemployment benefits be extended past September due to the delta variant?
The pandemic-era jobless support has been criticised in recent months but will the rising covid-19 infection rate force Biden to extend the additional unemployment benefits?
The United States is one of a number of countries across the world to be
struggling to contain a surge in covid-19 cases, believed to be linked to the more infectious delta variant. There are fears that the new strain could really start to take hold in the autumn, just as various pandemic-era support programmes are due to finish.
The most notable is the