Federal Government to Provide Extra $300 Per Week in Unemployment Benefits
President Trump has signed a $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and government funding bill, after spending almost a week threatening a veto over the size of the stimulus payments that would be sent directly to Americans. The relief package, signed into law on December 27th, provides an extra $300 per week in unemployment benefits to out-of-work Americans, on top of whatever the state provides, for 11 weeks. The $2 trillion CARES Act, the historic rescue package passed in March 2020 in…