Anonymous Coward User ID: 72315940 United States 05/06/2020 01:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Coronavirus unemployment: Jobless Americans can't pay rent, buy food [ link to www.usatoday.com (secure)] – Roselande Guerrier lies in bed each night, waiting for her cellphone to display 7:30 a.m. – when the Florida unemployment office opens – and calls, aching for answers, searching for help. "All night, my eyes are open," she said. "Five o’clock, my eyes are open. I call at 6 o’clock and the office is closed. I call at 7:30 and boom, ‘All lines are busy.’ Every number they give me, I try, but they’re always busy." Guerrier, 36, has spent 13 years changing sheets, picking up dirty towels and scrubbing bathrooms as a housekeeper at the Fontainebleau hotel, the iconic Miami Beach resort. At night, she would do the same at the Cadillac Hotel & Beach Club, an art deco resort a few blocks away. Both those jobs vanished on March 23 when the hotels were forced to close because of the COVID-19 pandemic. With three children to care for, she hasn’t seen a nickel of unemployment benefits or federal relief money. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 72315940 United States 05/06/2020 01:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Coronavirus unemployment: Jobless Americans can't pay rent, buy food The financial crisis comes at a precarious moment for households already teetering on the brink of ruin. Even before the pandemic struck, nearly a third of Americans didn't have a savings account. Average credit card debt per household topped $7,000 and personal loans were the fastest-growing type of consumer debt in 2019. More than 20% of all children lived in families with incomes below the federal poverty level.
The pandemic shutdown has piled on the economic agony, with 52% of lower-income adults saying they or someone in their household have lost a job or taken a pay cut during the outbreak, according to the Pew Research Center. |
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User ID: 78698051 Canada 05/06/2020 01:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Coronavirus unemployment: Jobless Americans can't pay rent, buy food So what do we do??
Worry about yours forget everyone else! |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 72315940 United States 05/06/2020 01:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Coronavirus unemployment: Jobless Americans can't pay rent, buy food So what do we do??
Worry about yours forget everyone else!
Quoting: Q33 You are selfish. |
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User ID: 78698051 Canada 05/06/2020 01:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Coronavirus unemployment: Jobless Americans can't pay rent, buy food So what do we do??
Worry about yours forget everyone else!
Quoting: Q33 You are selfish. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 72315940 You gonna help everyone out? you gonna feed em all? Selfish wins the day! |
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User ID: 78698051 Canada 05/06/2020 02:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Coronavirus unemployment: Jobless Americans can't pay rent, buy food Cat got ur tongue bitch? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 78435276 United States 05/06/2020 02:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Coronavirus unemployment: Jobless Americans can't pay rent, buy food The real story You’re not going to hear |