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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An effort to prohibit people who haven’t been vaccinated against COVID-19 from being denied access to state buildings, public colleges and any facility funded by
Vax After Dark, pandemic poem, Amtrak’s back: News from around our 50 states From USA TODAY Network and wire reports © Thomas Hawthorne/The Republic Justin McCawley receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up site in the parking lot next to Antigone Books in Tucson, Ariz., on May 20, 2021. Alabama Montgomery: The state’s unemployment rate dropped to 3.6% last month, and a surge of hiring prompted by renewed business activity as the pandemic eases is driving up wages, labor officials said Friday. Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted jobless rate for April was 3.6%, d...
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Rep Rodney Lyons (D) Harvey A bill to increase the unemployment weekly benefit by $28 beginning in 2022 fails in the House. The bill came under bipartisan assault especially after a hiring bonus was added. Bill author Harvey Democrat Representative Rodney Lyons said the original intent was to increase the weekly amount, an initiative that began before the pandemic. “As we do know that at $247 a week, we’re at the bottom as far as what we pay in unemployment benefits,” said Lyons. A hiring bonus of up to $1,000 was added to the bill to entice those on unemployment to return to work, Boss...