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The Epidemic of Unemployment

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Iles, What Decisions Did You Make When You Worked Back at the Plant?

i applied unemploymento called every day, bout twenty times a day, constantly calling back. On april fourteenth, i was able to get a resolution. And it said that my claim had been approved. Two hundred and 20 dollars a week. Thats allf my time working. Because, nw, i don't know who can live off to twenty three a week. No one. O, mikeok....

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Once you sort of got through that first wave of emotions and and you're sitting there and and looking at the money you have and the money that's going to be coming in, what decisions did you make?
Speaker 1
Iles, my job. An mach tirtyu, so this was a round tax tin. What was able to keep my family inside the home they would have, and to keep me from begging a, you know, bill collectors fom, you know, cutting off my lights, you know, cutting off my water, cutting off the gas, was that i was able to tap into my my tax refunt and that, that was what i was living loss of. And i applied unemploymento called every day, bout twenty times a day, constantly calling back, hang up, cara, hang up, carback. Nothing. No one. O, mikeok. How
Speaker 2
long did it take to resolva?
Speaker 1
On april fourteenth, i was able to get a resolution. And it said that my claim had been approved. Two hundred and twenty dollars a week. Thats allf my time working. And the additional six hundred from the federal government was the amount that i was able to stay my bills. Because, nw, i don't know who can live off to twenty three a week. I'm an usher. You're
Speaker 2
getting six hundred dollars a week from the federal government. You're getting two twenty three from the state of north carolina. How does that compare to what you were earning when you were working back at the plant?
Speaker 1
It is actually more than i was earning. And i think that's probably the sad plot about it, that it is actually more. I'm bringing in now, three hundred, a little bit over three hundred and twenty dollars more i made giver take a few dollars that i was making going to work every day, so it's me to pay my bills and little bit more comfortably.

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