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Last Labor Report Before Election Shows Drop In US Jobless Claims

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17 were in Massachusetts (+5,442), Kansas (+3,010), Virginia (+2,255), Texas (+616) and Minnesota (+493), while the largest decreases were in California (-16,207), New York (-11,495), Georgia (-9,274), Florida (-7,834) and Michigan (-7,774). During the week ending Oct. Unemployment has been high since the pandemic began.

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FBI Probing Hack Of US Electricity Providers

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The impacted utilities operate in 18 states from Maine to Washington, including Cloverland Electric Cooperation in Michigan, Klickitat Public Utility District in Washington state and Basin Electric Power Cooperative in North Dakota. The email was then downloaded onto a disk and sent to the FBI for analysis.

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Grocery Stores Shutter In-Store Pharmacies

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The move, happening in states as varied as Washington, Minnesota and everywhere in between, comes as customers have been making fewer trips to visit pharmacy counters while doing grocery shopping. Supermarket pharmacy counters are closing across the U.S. as they struggle to keep customers coming back.

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USDA?s SNAP Benefits Can Used In 25 States, DC To Buy Groceries From Amazon

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As of this week, customers with SNAP in the states of Colorado, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin can now use their cards to buy groceries from the website’s services and have them delivered to the customers’ doors.

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Instacart Expands Alcohol Delivery Across The U.S.

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In a press release , Instacart said customers in 14 states, as well as Washington D.C., Instacart alcohol delivery is now available in California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington and Washington, D.C. ”

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Fiserv Enables SNAP Online EBT Payment Acceptance For Grocers

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In addition to New York, the program is now available for SNAP recipients in Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, New York, Oregon and Washington. Eight additional states, Idaho, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Texas, West Virginia, Vermont and the District of Columbia, are slated to be added in June.

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Aftermath: Retailers Try To Focus On Recovery

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In normal times, businesses would probably take it in their stride,” Neil Saunders, a retail analyst at GlobalData Retail, told The Washington Post. According to The Washington Post, “Starbucks executives hosted forums for employees to talk about the issues and their feelings. The hardest-hit area appeared to be New York City.

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