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IN JUST TWO WEEKS NEARLY 10 MILLION PEOPLE IN USA FILING UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS
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#CORONAVIRUS CRISIS -- TAKING SUCH A TOLL ON SO MANY FAMILIES -- AS WE SEE RECORD UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS.
IN JUST TWO WEEKS NEARLY 10-MILLION PEOPLE FILING #UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS.
THE ECONOMIC FALLOUT ALSO LEAVING MANY AMERICANS WITHOUT #HEALTHCARE COVERAGE AT A CRUCIAL TIME.
A SOARING NUMBER OF AMERICANS OUT OF WORK - A RECORD 6.6 MILLION PEOPLE LAID OFF LAST WEEK ALONE - IN JUST TWO WEEKS, NEARLY 10 MILLION PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY HAVE FILED NEW CLAIMS FOR UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE-
A STAGGERING FIGURE WHICH DOESN'T EVEN INCLUDE THE SELF-EMPLOYED, OR UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS - OR THE MANY AMERICANS WHO'VE BEEN TRYING TO APPLY -
BUT CAN'T LIKE EMYLEE TUCKER WHO WORKED AS A SALES ASSOCIATE IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
Emylee Tucker: "I just got an apartment, started a new job and I was laid off because my business was non-essential."
EMYLEE HAS BEEN TRYING TO FILE FOR UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS FOR MORE THAN TWO WEEKS
Emylee Tucker: "I can't even get in contact with somebody to speak with them so I am stuck with bills to pay, mouths to feed, no job to provide me an income"
GROWING UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS PUT AN UNPRECEDENTED STRAIN ON PHONE LINES AND WEBSITES DEDICATED TO UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS
THAT RISING JOBLESSNESS ADDING ANOTHER STRAIN: THE POTENTIAL LOSS OF HEALTH INSURANCE FOR MILLIONS
Larry Levitt, Executive Vice President, Kaiser Family Foundation: "we have never experienced an economic crisis that has come on this fast or or this profoundly. // And this is coming in the midst of not just an economic crisis, but a public health crisis as well, when people need their health insurance more than ever.
AFTER LOSING HER JOB AS A COOK IN LAS VEGAS TWO WEEKS AGO, JACKLYN BALEAN HAS BEEN TRYING UNSUCCESSFULLY TO FILE FOR UNEMPLOYMENT.
Jacklyn Balean: "I am running out of all my money, which was not a whole lot to begin with. And now I'm being told by my insurance company that if I can't pay my premium, then I have to switch to Medicaid and lose all my benefits. "
ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN HOUSTON,TEXAS JAMES PENNYWAY, LOST HIS JOB AS A PHOTOGRAPHER AND IS BATTLING CANCER FOR THE THIRD TIME
James Pennyway: my family, my boys and my wife and kids, you know. That's- they're my number one concern, and I just want to make sure that they are taken care of.
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