(Providence, RI)--The Rhode Island Department of Training said Thursday the state is applying to take part in a new unemployment offering that was authorized by an executive order from President Trump.According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the president made up to 44-billion dollars available from FEMA's Disaster Relief Fund to provide three-hundred-dollar weekly payments to those unemployed because of the coronavirus.A previous six-hundred-dollar-a-week federal emergency unemployment benefit ran out in July.Last weekend, FEMA announced the first seven states to agree to administer the new lost wages program.
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