Corrections

-- A July 5 Business graphic about layoffs misstated the length of time a single unemployed person is able to use COBRA health insurance coverage. It is 18 months, not nine months.

-- A June 26 A-section article referred to Gilo as a Jewish settlement. It is a Jewish neighborhood built on land captured in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and annexed to Israel as part of Jerusalem's expanded municipal boundaries. The United Nations has not acknowledged the annexation.

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