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Retail Recovery Veils Serious Headwinds

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The CARES Act upped jobless benefits by $600 a week, authorized one-time stimulus payments, and made loans to 5 million small businesses to help prop up payrolls. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and the U.S.