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.