UNEMPLOYMENT MELTDOWN

22 MILLION UNEMPLOYED CRASH UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE SERVICES Staggering Unemployment Numbers Crash Overwhelmed, Understaffed, Underfunded Archaic Unemployment Insurance Phone Lines across the Country. People Who’ve Worked all their Lives on Hold for Days hear Busy Signals and Hangups. Our Country was Not Ready for this Despite Decades of Warnings. Food Banks and Patience Drained

UNEMPLOYMENT
MELTDOWN

22 MILLION UNEMPLOYED CRASH UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE SERVICES
Staggering Unemployment Numbers Crash Overwhelmed, Understaffed, Underfunded
Archaic Unemployment Insurance Phone Lines across the Country. People Who’ve
Worked all their Lives on Hold for Days hear Busy Signals and Hangups. Our Country
was Not Ready for this Despite Decades of Warnings. Food Banks and Patience Drained

Commentary:

Let's keep our perspective. If you are among the tens of millions of Americans that are experiencing money problems during the CoV19 pandemic... you're one of the lucky ones!

People are dying!!! Over 40,000 so far. Be thankful if you are breathing on your own, not on a ventilator gasping for every breadth.

All these people out protesting this weekend to get our country to reopen before there are effective treatments and a vaccine should pause and consider what I just said.

That being said. Money problems are painful too. TWENTY-TWO MILLION PEOPLE ARE OUT OF WORK. The Unemployment Website cashes. Their forms do not take into account the virus, and the phone "help" lines are dismal. There are stories of people being on hold for 5 to 8 hours... then being CUT OFF just as a U.I. rep finally answers.

States and local government are overwhelmed and the fear is Unemployment funds till run out.

But, again. If your family is healthy. Count your blessings. It will give you something to do when you're on hold waiting for help.