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WDRB: Demanding extension of $600 benefits, caravan of unemployed workers circle McConnell's office in Louisville

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Thanks to Liles Taylor for sending us this. See also 'Union Groups Call On McConnell To Renew $600 Unemployment Supplement' (WFPL), 'Louisville caravan of workers calls for extension of $600 supplement to jobless benefits (Louisville Courier-Journal)' and 'Caravans in Louiville call for COVID-19 Relief' (WAVE 3).

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Unemployed workers organized a car caravan around the Louisville office of U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell on Thursday to demand urgent COVID-19 economic relief. 

Participants in the caravan around McConnell's office wanted legislators in Washington to extend the weekly payments of $600 in unemployment benefits, which expired in late July

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