People collecting unemployment for the first time stumbled twice It s a common problem, Nadine Hawver, a tax preparer in western Massachusetts, assured me (cue nervous laughter here). She went on to explain the root of the issue: Unemployment doesn t meet all of our normal income, so most people are hesitant to have any [money withheld] because they need every penny to meet their obligations.
Phew. This answer had me breathing easier from the get-go; despite my flawed logic, I m not the only one facing this present predicament.
Hawver went on to acknowledge another very simple truth: I think the hardest thing [in 2020] was many people were collecting unemployment for the very first time
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to be cleaned up, alex. and now the winds are picking up. ron mott, we ll heat you go. thank you for traipsing down the street and into the snow for the live shot. we appreciate it so much. on the phone from the new york/new jersey port authority is sue baer. welcome to you. what s the status? everything still closed in terms of area airports? well, actually no. as you might imagine, if you have five airports, you got five with this storm in particular, five very different conditions, but four out of the five have remained open. but as you know, we don t fly planes, so the airlines are making their plans of when they plan to arrive and repart from the airports. we expect that to be fairly soon. but the only airport that did close was newark. they had some whiteout conditions in the middle of the night. but they expect to have their runway, first runway opened by 0700 this morning so we re in as