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One unemployed man’s take on COVID relief fight

‘We didn’t choose this.’ Unemployed man shares frustrations on COVID relief fight

12/28/2020

PBS News Hour

One unemployed man’s take on COVID relief fight

Clip: 12/28/2020 | 4m 35sVideo has Closed Captions

‘We didn’t choose this.’ Unemployed man shares frustrations on COVID relief fight

Millions of unemployed Americans watched the weekend fight over COVID relief play out with a sense of exasperation over feeling like pawns in a game of political football, said Michael West, 60, an Uber driver who has been out of work since the spring. He talks to Amna Nawaz about the realities of pandemic job loss and what he thinks Americans like him need from Congress in the coming months.

12/28/2020

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