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Unemployment Insurance Helped Create Demand — And Jobs

  • June 21, 2021
  • Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
  • Bruno Showers

Our improving job numbers in Arkansas are due in part to the effect that $600-per-week unemployment supplements have had as they circulated through our economy. Losing them now would be disastrous.

Unemployment Insurance

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Nov. 12-14

We hope you will join us in New Orleans at the Loews New Orleans hotel from Wednesday, November 12 – Friday, November 14, 2025. Details to come!

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