Hundreds of people gather for food being distributed by the Houston Food Bank and volunteers with San Mateo Episcopal Church on Saturday, April 25, 2020, at the church in Houston. Since the start of the COVID-19 closures in mid-March, 2,523,804 Texans have applied for unemployment insurance benefits. State UI payments, meant to allow the unemployed to scrape by while job searching, supply about a quarter of a worker’s usual paycheck — from a minimum of $69 up to a max of $521 per week (average $246). But during the pandemic, the CARES Act has supplemented those scrawny state dollars […]
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