Indiana must continue pandemic unemployment benefits for now, judge rules
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Indiana must continue paying pandemic unemployment benefits to roughly 230,000 Hoosiers until a lawsuit challenging the early termination of the compensation is decided, a state judge ruled Friday.
Jobless workers filed a lawsuit earlier this month challenging Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb's order to cease the payments -- including the $300 weekly federal boost -- as of June 19. The suit may be the first one aimed at stopping states from ending the pandemic unemployment benefits early. Indiana Legal Services and Macey Swanson Hicks & Sauer, a private employment law firm, are arguing that the move violates a state law that requires Indiana to "procure all available federal insurance benefits to citizens," according to the firms.President Joe Biden on Sunday delivers his first commencement address of the 2024 season at Morehouse College, where the president may for the first time in months have to confront the angst that’s been percolating on college campuses nationwide toward his administration’s policies on the Israel-Hamas war.
Arab and Palestinian Americans left a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday night frustrated they did not have a clear understanding of how the Biden administration might act upon their concerns as the Israel-Hamas war devastates the civilian population in Gaza, participants told CNN.