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In My Experience: Long-term Unemployment
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Farmworkers, grocery store clerks and airline employees are on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis. But what’s being done to protect them? Chances are those tomatoes, strawberries or almonds you find in your grocery store come from California’s farm country. Monica Campbell of The World goes into the fields with workers, who are harvesting crops in the middle of the pandemic. She investigates how they’re being protected from the coronavirus and asks what happens if they get too sick to work. Host Al Letson talks to an employee of a Winn-Dixie grocery store. He is home sick with symptoms of COVID-19 but doesn’t qualify for a test and says he’s fed up with how he is being treated.see more
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Farmworkers, grocery store clerks and airline employees are on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis. But what’s being done to protect them? Chances are those tomatoes, strawberries or almonds you find in your grocery store come from California’s farm country. Monica Campbell of The World goes into the fields with workers, who are harvesting crops in the middle of the pandemic. She investigates how they’re being protected from the coronavirus and asks what happens if they get too sick to work. Host Al Letson talks to an employee of a Winn-Dixie grocery store. He is home sick with symptoms of COVID-19 but doesn’t qualify for a test and says he’s fed up with how he is being treated.see more
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In My Experience: Long-term Unemployment

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California's unemployment rate is now at a dismally high 11.9 percent. We talk to some of the people behind those numbers as part of our new "In My Experience" series, spotlighting personal stories of Northern Californians. For our inaugural show we talk with people who have been unemployed for more than a year about their efforts to find work, and about their personal struggles with unemployment.

Guests:

Chris Ho, unemployed former proofreader for law firms living in Sacramento

Bobby Rivers, unemployed broadcaster living in San Francisco

Marisol Quintana, unemployed art director and graphic designer living in Oakland

Dawn Bryan, unemployed interior designer who last worked in the hospitality industry, living in Santa Rosa

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