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Montgomery: Gov. Kay Ivey will end the state’s participation in federal unemployment programs geared to the pandemic, including supplements to jobless benefits and a suspension of a work-search requirement. The state will withdraw from the program June 19, the governor’s office said in a statement Monday. Applications for the pandemic-related benefits will be processed until then. The decision means the state will withdraw from programs that provided an additional $300 weekly payment in unemployment insurance; extended benefits to self-employed, gig workers and part-time workers; extended benefits for those who’ve exhausted regular benefits; and provided an additional $100 benefit to people with mixed earnings. “Among other factors, increased unemployment assistance, which was meant to be a short-term relief program during emergency related shutdowns, is now contributing to a labor shortage that is compromising the continuatio
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Alabama
Montgomery: Gov. Kay Ivey will end the state’s participation in federal unemployment programs geared to the pandemic, including supplements to jobless benefits and a suspension of a work-search requirement. The state will withdraw from the program June 19, the governor’s office said in a statement Monday. Applications for the pandemic-related benefits will be processed until then. The decision means the state will withdraw from programs that provided an additional $300 weekly payment in unemployment insurance; extended benefits to self-employed, gig workers and part-time workers; extended benefits for those who’ve exhausted regular benefits; and provided an additional $100 benefit to people with mixed earnings. “Among other factors, increased unemployment assistance, which was meant to be a short-term relief program during emergency
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Firefly Music Festival is planning to reduce capacity to about 50,000 fans this fall, state officials said, a reduced capacity that would make it the smallest since the festival s 2012 debut.
But details about other possible COVID-19 related precautions and restrictions have largely been undecided. State health officials will begin the detailed planning process with festival organizers later this month.
A day after Firefly dropped its 93-act lineup featuring headliners Billie Eilish, The Killers, Tame Impala and Lizzo, a top state health official spoke with Delaware Online/The News Journal about how the massive Sept. 23-26 camping-and-music event could happen this fall.
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