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Coronavirus in Texas

As businesses prepare to reopen, workers weigh COVID-19 risk against the need for a paycheck

If a business reopens and an employee chooses not to return to work, they become ineligible for unemployment, according to the Texas Workforce Commission.

Gov. Greg Abbott announced a strike force in charge of laying steps to re-open the Texas economy at a press conference in the capitol in April.

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