Jul 27, 2020

What to do about those $600? That’s still the question.

The benefits vary from state to state, though right now, recipients also qualify for $600 a week in federal pandemic unemployment benefits. Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images

Republicans are expected to roll out their trillion-dollar coronavirus relief package today. A 17% jump in the number of people in the U.S. relying on food stamps. And, how have plant-based meat companies fared during COVID-19?

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It doesn't look like Senate Republicans intend to extend the extra $600-a-week pandemic unemployment benefits

Instead, they’re proposing a scaled-back unemployment supplement. Marketplace’s Nancy Marshall-Genzer reports.

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Need for food stamps surges with pandemic

by Samantha Fields

Jul 27, 2020

More than six million people signed up for food stamps in just three months, more than in the first 17 months of the Great Recession.

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How are plant-based meat companies faring during the pandemic?

by Kristin Schwab

Jul 27, 2020

Beyond Meat reports quarterly results Monday, which may offer a glimpse into how the sector is doing.

Packages of meat alternatives for sale in a New York market. Most customers are not vegetarians but people who eat less meat for health or environmental reasons.

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