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60 Minutes

5/3/2020: The Jobless, Where Did The Money Go?, The State of Texas

60 Minutes

CBS News

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

3.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Rural Texas hospitals and clinics are on the brink of closure, as the state prepares to reopen from coronavirus shutdown. Sharyn Alfonsi reports. Scott Pelley talks to some of the 30 million-plus Americans who have become economic victims of the pandemic.  And Lesley Stahl reports on the problems small farmers are facing. Those stories on this week's "60 Minutes."

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The new jobless include graduates starting careers and veteran workers focused on retirement.

0:44.6

When was the last time you were unemployed?

0:46.7

I was never unemployed.

0:48.4

We spoke to those who never imagined losing their job to hear about their prospects and how they're coping.

0:55.1

How long before you're broke?

1:00.6

Nail.

1:06.5

60 Minutes was investigating what happened to a $28 billion government bailout for farmers when the pandemic hit.

1:16.4

Farmers and ranchers tell us that if government aid doesn't reach their small and mid-sized farms soon,

1:23.3

it'll make it nearly impossible for American farming to stay in the family.

1:28.9

It's just hard, Leslie.

1:30.4

I worry about my kids.

1:32.2

My sons are on the farm, and I worry about them all the time.

1:37.4

And your good cholesterol is nice and high.

1:39.9

Elizabeth Ellis is a nurse practitioner.

1:42.8

When we met her, she was tearing around her East Texas farm with her four-legged sidearm named pistol.

1:50.6

Social distancing is built into the landscape here and enforced by barbed wire.

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