Essential service workers on why they need hazard pay: 'Everybody is scared.' (via CNBCMakeIt)
Each time she takes the subway 45 minutes to work and back, New York City resident Regina Thompson is scared it's the day she'll finally contract Covid-19.
"I've seen 9/11, I've seen blackouts, I've seen [Hurricane] Sandy, and now this," Thompson tells CNBC Make It. "I talk to a lot of my coworkers and everybody is scared." she is given per shift by her employer. Her budget is stretched thin in other ways, too: Groceries, cleaning supplies and even doing laundry are all more expensive than they used to be in her neighborhood, and she is supporting two of her adult children who lost their jobs due to Covid-19.
It's a very hard and scary situation now, the times we are living in. I've never seen anything like this."It's a very hard and scary situation now, the times we are living in," she says. "I've never seen anything like this."
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