Economics

These State Programs Offer a Path to Rehire U.S. Workers

  • Employees get pro-rated jobless benefits and extra $600 a week
  • Plans expanded rapidly and now cover almost 194,000 people
Molly Moon’s U Village shop in Seattle, on May 29.Photographer: Chona Kasinger/Bloomberg
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Molly Moon’s Homemade Ice Cream put the scoops away, locked its doors and laid off all but four of the 100 employees at its Seattle-area shops in March when the coronavirus began spreading.