Joblessness and Depressed /Uncertain Economics
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about unimaginable economic damage. Currently, more than 41 million U.S. citizens have filed for unemployment since March, and at the last benchmark of April, 2020 14.7 percent its highest since the Great Depression. Unemployment is one of the greatest predictors of homelessness, food insecurity, physical and verbal abuse, and poor healthcare. It cannot be ignored that many of our students are living with newly unemployed parents and therefore had to take on a job of their own to supplement the lost income. Their former role as a student must come after providing for themselves and family.