Back in July, we told you about a woman named Emily Gwill.

Back then, she told NPR that she had lost her job at a hotel in Portland, Oregon,

and that she was going through her savings with no plan for what to do if they ran out.

I'm concerned about going into deep debt and ruining my credit.

I'm worried about not being able to pay my rent and having maybe facing eviction or breaking my lease.

She was saying all that in mid-July.

Well, actually, there've been some big changes.

And now my savings was gone and those sort of staring down the barrel of rent due on September

1st, I decided to break my lease and move out of state back in with my parents.

Emily Gwill is 38 years old.

She says she didn't have a choice but to move back home because the money she'd been living on,

$600 a week from the federal government went away.

I just gave away everything I owned and still looking for a job and getting nothing in response,

trying to change industries when millions of people are looking for a job.

It's very overwhelming and I'm not really sure what the future holds.

Alicia Gonzalez in Arizona was also unemployed back in July.

I thought things couldn't get worse. It's just getting worse.

Then she got an offer for a job as a Walmart greeter enforcing the company's mask mandate

with the door. And I'm like, that's really like a close-in personal.

Like people can be like, you know, like, no, I don't, I didn't feel safe enough.

So she turned down the job. Then there's Kim Robinson in New Orleans.

She's hot. You know, of course the enemy bill is going up.

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