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Last Checked Oct. 1, 2020

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Thu Jul 23 17:57:10 +0000 2020

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Ben Popken @bpopken

“As badly as I need to go back to work after the extra $600 stops, I won't risk my family,” said Sarah. She walked off her Texas call center job after they treated COVID-19 "like a hoax." Now one of her former colleagues is sick and Sarah is trying to make rent and feed 4 kids. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 23, 2020

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Tabitha's federal unemployment got hung up after she entered a bank number wrong. Florida hasn't fixed it yet. If she got her backpay she and her 7-year old would have enough to find a long-term rental. Now every day she tries to make enough for a hotel room or sleep in her car. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 23, 2020

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Working families told me how they’re relying on the $600/week to survive. One mom said she’d much rather be working, if there was safe work to do. Now all will face weeks of gaps, in the best case scenario. — PolitiTweet.org

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“I’m risking her life too. I can’t take risks like that,” one mother on the challenge of going back to work during… https://t.co/pTb8U9y4eo

Posted July 24, 2020

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