It provides free testing, food assistance, unemployment benefits and some paid leave for employees at companies with fewer than 500 people.
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives passed a sweeping bill early Saturday addressing the impacts of the coronavirus outbreak, aiming to soften the economic blow that many Americans are expected to feel as stores close, people stay home and stock markets plunge.
Expanded family and medical leave — for someThe House bill expands the existing family and medical leave program. Story continuesBut there's a catch: this benefit applies only to companies with fewer than 500 employees. Anyone employed by a company larger than that — which is more than half of all American workers — is ineligible.
Unemployment benefitsThe bill provides additional funds to states that experience a 10 percent increase in unemployment.
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