As the coronavirus pandemic swept the country in March 2020, she first lost her job as a cook and food server at a private school in Savannah, Georgia. Then she was told that her second job, as a transit driver for people with disabilities, would end.
She depleted her savings to pay rent and buy food for herself and her 9-year-old daughter, Genesis. Unemployment insurance helped but fell short of what she needed to pay the bills.
“I was afraid. I was depressed,” Pritchett said. “Honestly, I didn’t know what I was going to do.”
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