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COVID & Unemployment

People who refuse unsafe work can get unemployment benefits

by Meghan McCarty Carino

Feb 11, 2021

Until now such decisions have been left to states, leading to wide variation and confusion.

The lack of consistency across the country as to what counts as "unsafe work" means workers are consistently denied unemployment benefits.

Alex Edelman/AFP via Getty Images

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