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JEFFERSON CITY -- Gov. Jay Nixon yesterday signed a bill that trades a shorter period of initial unemployment benefits for immediate reinstatement of payments to the long-term jobless.
The bill restores benefits that ended April 2 as a result of a Senate filibuster of the measure. The first checks could go out this week, Nixon said.See the full content of this document
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; Nixon Signs Jobless Bill After Lengthy Debate.
For the newly unemployed, the bill cuts from 26 to 20 the number of weeks a jobless worker can claim regular benefits.
"To me it was just a balancing act of what ...See the full content of this document
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