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Many Unemployed Still Waiting For Their First Check

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The surge of applicants has forced some states to hire more staff, expand calling hours and ease the filing process, the news service reported. One of the solutions some states, such as New Hampshire and New York, have adopted is to have applicants apply on specific days of the week based on their name.

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Fintech Fundings: 186 Companies Raised $1.6 Billion in June

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HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. HQ: Bedford, New Hampshire. Income tax preparation app. HQ: New Delhi, India. Tags: Consumer, tax prep. Source: Crunchbase , Finovate. Goji (formerly Consumers United). Consumer insurance portal. Latest round: $19 million. Total raised: $89 million. Source: FT Partners.

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Massachusetts: Frozen Growth In The Frozen North

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New Englanders are known nationwide for several things: a stoic disposition, a fondness for chowders, a congenital love of wool and a weird horror at the letter “r.” The vagaries of the New England economy show up, encapsulated, in Massachusetts. And this is a good thing, since growth has been less than on fire of late.

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Payments And Commerce On The Campaign Trail

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A highly unscientific poll of our coworkers found that the average collection of people waiting for a bus in downtown Boston has a more cohesive political ideology than our staff, who are all supporting wildly different candidates for wildly different reasons. But not everywhere. The Cruz campaign was not so polite.

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