As the pandemic wreaks havoc in the U.S., snatching millions of jobs, the $600 weekly pandemic unemployment payments have single-handedly changed the economic equation in America. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) On the face of it, $600 is a pretty unremarkable number.
The federal government has been paying this additional amount each week to every person who has lost a job because of the pandemic.
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