In seven weeks, millions of people filed for unemployment. Now, millions of Americans struggle with their new reality, forced to miss bills or burn through savings as they barrel toward an uncertain future.
, which puts them at risk of catching the virus that has killed 70,847 Americans in less than three months.
They applied for unemployment – Chumley's was approved, her husband's was not. The state department’s website glitches and freezes. Ellman gets an email saying he’s eligible for some relief, then clicks on a link that leads to a dead end. The family had recently moved to a new neighborhood, the rent more than doubling to $2,500. The old neighborhood, said Bey, was rough. Five people were shot outside her home. Two died. And now she didn't have that extra income to help cover the household costs. She had been collecting $125 per child per week.
A couple days later, Clark and another manager were told they were being let go, too. The restaurant located in a shopping center in the suburbs of the Twin Cities wasn’t able to do enough takeout business. She has her rent to pay, the basic internet bill, the electric bill, the cellphone bill and the car insurance. She and her son are eating tuna and sardines to save on expenses. She has no savings.
Emilio Rivamar stands on a balcony of a hotel he was painting in Panama City Beach, Florida, before he was laid off because of a downturn in bookings from the coronavirus pandemic.But Rivamar's job disappeared as tourism plunged in Panama City, leaving him stuck with three other workers living in a hotel room, wondering how they'll survive the shutdown.
"I never would have imagined that a so-called 'developed country' would have people beg others for money in order to keep their head just above water," she said.COVID-19 shut down his kidneys, forcing him onto a dialysis machine. Then it shut down his heart. For two minutes, before the doctors were able to revive him, he was technically dead at 46 years old. "They told us he was more dead than alive," Lopez said.
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