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One Year Into Pandemic, Thousands Of Excluded Workers Are Still Begging For Relief
AdvertisementRubiela Correa lost her primary job as a house cleaner at the very start of the pandemic, and her second job looking after an elderly couple a few weeks later. Unable to find work or make rent, the 44-year-old was forced to move out of her Queens apartment. She landed in the city’s shelter system, but didn’t feel safe. At her lowest point, she said, she slept inside JFK Airport.“I am surviving on favors,” Correa, who is now staying temporarily with a friend, told Gothamist through a translator. For the first time since arriving in the country nine years ago, she is not sending...…AdvertisementRubiela Correa lost her primary job as a house cleaner at the very start of the pandemic, and her second job looking after an elderly couple a few weeks later. Unable to find work or make rent, the 44-year-old was forced to move out of her Queens apartment. She landed in the city’s shelter system, but didn’t feel safe. At her lowest point, she said, she slept inside JFK Airport.“I am surviving on favors,” Correa, who is now staying temporarily with a friend, told Gothamist through a translator. For the first time since arriving in the country nine years ago, she is not sending...WW…
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