Ten bucks left, no place to go

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🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Today on Post Reports, social issues reporter Kyle Swenson explains how America’s unemployment system is stretched to the brink by the pandemic. And reporter Sydney Page on one artist’s random acts of kindness, and what they mean to health-care heroes.

Ten bucks left, no place to go: How the pandemic and a broken unemployment system are upending people’s lives.

Health-care workers are opening their mailboxes and finding their own portraits.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:04.3	Hi, this is Ben Terris coming from the Washington Post.
0:07.8	Hi, Jeff.
0:08.8	This is Winfrey Oprah.
0:09.8	Hi there.
0:10.8	How are you?
0:11.8	It's Lisa Bones, calling for the post.
0:13.6	This is Post Reports.
0:14.6	I'm Nicole Ellis.
0:18.8	It's Friday, August 14.
0:24.6	Today what it's like to be at the mercy of an overwhelmed unemployment system and the
0:29.5	artist drawing portraits of healthcare workers.
0:36.1	Daniel Vot is a young 30 year old guy living in DC.
0:39.9	He's a punk rock kind of guy.
0:45.5	He's got the tattoos up and down his arms and legs and face piercings.
0:50.8	He'd been at a bunch of punk rock bands and toured the country and was working until recently
0:56.1	at a bar in Georgetown.
0:57.5	I was getting there.
0:58.5	I was bartender in training.
0:59.9	You were learning.
1:00.9	Yeah, you were working there.
1:01.9	Yeah.
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