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'Worst nightmare': Laid-off workers endure loss of $600 aid

by AP Business Writers
| August 7, 2020 12:03 AM

An unemployed makeup artist with two toddlers and a disabled husband needs help with food and rent. A hotel manager says his unemployment has deepened his anxiety and kept him awake at night. A dental hygienist, pregnant with her second child, is struggling to afford diapers and formula.

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