N.C. House votes to cut off expanded $300-a-week federal unemployment benefits

The state House has voted to make North Carolina the 26th state to withdraw from the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program, which provides an extra $300-a-week in jobless benefits to the unemployed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Senate Bill 116 passed in a largely party-line 71-36 vote on Wednesday, June 3. In addition to ending...