I think when the reality reality of everything hit was when my dad came home early and he told

me that he lost his job.

It was kind of like a wake-up car, but it was also fear for how long it's not going to

have a job.

It was a typical weekday in March when Kate Bustamante was sitting in class chatting with

her friends.

I remember I had my music class and me and my friend were joking about how if this actually

got that bad we would be having Skype calls for class.

News had been bubbling that COVID-19 was beginning to shut down restaurants, stores, schools,

all across California.

Kate wrapped up her music class and headed to her next one in the newsroom on campus.

And everyone's like outside and they're like, oh, we're not going today.

And I was like, what do you mean we're not going today?

And yeah, they told us that they were really going to close the school down because of COVID.

And just like that, overnight, Kate went from being a full-time college student to her family's

main breadwinner.

From Futuro Media, it's Latino USA, I'm Mariano Posa.

Today, the pandemic has upended and jeopardized the education and future of many college

students we're going to hear from one of them.

The summer of 2020 was filled with uncertainty.

In the US, COVID-19 had left more than 20 million people without an income within the first

few months of the outbreak.

...