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turbinetree

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Sun Aug 9, 2020, 10:37 AM Aug 2020

For pandemic jobless, the only real certainty is uncertainty

By SHARON COHEN
46 minutes ago



CHICAGO (AP) — For three decades, Kelly Flint flourished as a corporate travel agent, sending everyone from business titans to oil riggers around the planet. Then came the worst pandemic in a century, leaving her jobless and marooned in an uncertain economy.

Furloughed since March, Flint has dipped into her retirement account to pay her bills, frustrated that her $600 weekly emergency federal aid payments have expired. She yearns, too, for an end to the twin disasters that now dominate her life: recession and pandemic.

“I don’t deal well with the unknowns,” she says. “I never have.”

Across America are legions of Kelly Flints, women and men who don’t know when they’ll receive another paycheck — or if.

https://apnews.com/17ea4026bc4d6458711100e472a38a7a

And some fucking fat putz riding around in some golf cart charging the very people in this article to have taxes pay for that fucking golf car and secret service protection and then sitting behind some desk admitting that he wants to get rid of Social Security and Medicare......................................

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