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Your Pie “To blame this all on unemployment benefits is unfair,” said Efrem Yates, a Your Pie franchisee with three locations in the Raleigh-Durham, N.C., area. “Everyone had to make tough choices this past year — there are parents that had to leave their jobs because they became the primary caregiver. There are so many layers to this.” For Yates’ restaurants, getting employees in the door has been much more challenging than fighting the turnover rate, and he cites the highly competitive job market, which has pushed restaurants to raise their wages just to compete. All three of hi...

Updated December 14, 2020 11:36 p.m. EST By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of lawmakers unveiled a detailed COVID-19 aid proposal on Monday in hopes it would serve as a model for its battling leaders to follow as they try to negotiate a final agreement on a new round of virus relief. The dozen or so lawmakers unveiled two bills. One is a $748 billion aid package containing money for struggling businesses, the unemployed, schools, and for vaccine distribution. The other bill proposes a $160 billion aid package for state and local governments that's favore...