Unemployment disrupts education for low-income WA college students
Students who depend on part-time jobs to help pay tuition and other expenses are making difficult choices during the COVID-related economic downturn.
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Clarisse Yapjoco at a park near her home in Snohomish on Feb. 18, 2020. The Seattle milk tea store where Yapjoco worked closed in March due to the pandemic. She also moved out of the house she lived in near the University of Washington and into her parents home in order to save money. (Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut)
Zi Huang, a junior at the University of Washington, lost his part-time retail job in a Seattle Nike store at the beginning of 2020 as the store shut down because of COVID-19 restrictions. He wasn’t the only family member who lost his job; his parents, who worked in the hotel industry, were laid off in March 2020 as a result of budget cuts.