Federal unemployment checks will cut off in weeks. Here’s what might happen next.

At the end of this month, 29 million of your readers, viewers and listeners will see the end of the $600-a-week federal unemployment check unless Congress extends the program. It might.

Marketplace explored what’s next:

Those payments have replaced 10% to 15% of Americans’ pre-pandemic income. If the money’s cut off at the end of July, Michele Evermore at the National Employment Law Project said nearly 30 million unemployed Americans will be thrown back onto state benefits alone.

The federal unemployment checks, coupled with the one-time $1,200 stimulus checks, help...