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While her supervisor allowed her to make up the hours she missed, she felt she should have gotten the paid COVID-related leave that California at the time required businesses to give full-time workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a real job for a lot of students,” Dearborn said. “We get paid and we use that pay for bills and our personal expenses … if you’re expecting for it to be a real job, but not receive sick pay, I think that that’s really weird.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several cited the discrepancy between Cal State’s minimum wage and local minimum wages as part of their motivation. University attorney Marc Mootchnik told San Diego State’s student newspaper, The Daily Aztec, in 2016 that because Cal State is a state agency, it \u003ca href=\"https://thedailyaztec.com/80394/news/city-minimum-wage-does-not-apply-at-sdsu/\">is not required to comply\u003c/a> with local minimum wage laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emma Galloway, a commuter student at \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California State University, Northridge\u003c/span>, said receiving at least the Los Angeles minimum wage of $16.50 for her work as a student assistant in the journalism department office would help her save money to move out of her parents’ house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a very big fear of being homeless, especially with the homeless crisis in Los Angeles,” she said. “I’m really grateful to have my parents and to live under a roof, but that fear kind of lingers a little bit, and I just want to save enough to the point where I can rent a one-bedroom apartment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Student assistants are a backbone” for the campus departments where they work, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 11,000 Cal State teaching assistants and other academic workers already have union representation through the United Auto Workers. But the undergraduates involved in the California State University Employees Union organizing effort are doing work that’s arguably less related to their studies — such as filing office paperwork, helping with print jobs and assisting in checking out books at the library.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More students are organizing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>They’re part of a recent wave of campus labor activism that includes the largest higher education strike in history, in which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/01/six-takeaways-for-californians-after-the-uc-graduate-student-worker-strike/\">48,000 graduate student workers at the University of California\u003c/a> walked off the job in November, eventually winning raises, transit passes and child care benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946749\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946749\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A line of protesters of all ages hold blue and white picket signs as they chant on a college campus.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff members during a strike among some 48,000 academic workers across all 10 University of California campuses at the UCSF Mission Bay campus on Nov. 15, 2022. The California State University Employees Union, which represents non-student workers in similar roles, filed petitions with the state’s Public Employment Relations Board in 2021 to add student assistants into its existing bargaining units, and has been working with student organizers to collect union authorization cards since fall 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In February, Dartmouth University \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2023/02/college-swcd-reach-tentative-agreement-to-21-base-pay-proposal\">agreed to pay its student dining hall workers\u003c/a> a base wage of $21 per hour after they voted to authorize a strike — less than a year after being recognized as a union. And last month, undergraduate residential advisors at the University of Pennsylvania filed for representation with the Office and Professional Employees International Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most fundamental demand that people on college campuses are making right now is honor the principles that you say you are committed to,” said Caroline Luce, labor historian at the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and a member of the university’s lecturers’ union. “You say you’re a public-serving institution — it doesn’t make sense to be paying people wages that they can’t live on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Cal State undergraduates have been inspired by the gains made by graduate student organizing, Luce said, they face an uphill battle if the university continues to oppose the effort, because of the high turnover in their ranks.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Caroline Luce, labor historian, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment\"]‘You say you’re a public-serving institution — it doesn’t make sense to be paying people wages that they can’t live on.’[/pullquote]“If [Cal State officials] draw things out, they will win basically because the students who [are organizing] will go on to bigger and better things and it might fall apart,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://perb.ca.gov/\">Public Employment Relations Board\u003c/a> hearings to determine whether the California State University Employees Union can expand its bargaining units to include student assistants began in March and will resume June 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Either the union or the university could appeal the judge’s decision to the full board and then to a state court of appeal. If the union prevails, it could then submit cards showing majority support and petition to represent the students, said the board’s general counsel, Felix De La Torre. It could also file to create a new bargaining unit composed of student assistants only.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What makes it more unique than a typical public employee union drive is we’re dealing with individuals who straddle the line between employees and students,” said De La Torre. He cited recent controversies over whether, for example, collegiate athletes should be allowed to organize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these cases begin to develop a body of law around this class of workers,” he said. “To that extent, it could be significant if this petition goes up to the board.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California State University undergraduate student assistants are mounting a union-organizing campaign that could affect thousands of library assistants, clerical workers and other nonacademic student employees.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1681505180,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1353},"headData":{"title":"Cal State Undergrad Workers Pursue Union Representation for Higher Wages, Paid Sick Time | KQED","description":"California State University undergraduate student assistants are mounting a union-organizing campaign that could affect thousands of library assistants, clerical workers and other nonacademic student employees.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"CalMatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/rocky-walker/\">Rocky Walker\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11946741/cal-state-undergrad-workers-pursue-union-representation-for-higher-wages-paid-sick-time","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California State University is the largest public university system in the country, so when sophomore Delilah Mays-Triplett decided that working on the San Diego State University campus as a library assistant would be the best thing for her education, she didn’t expect to be paid less than the local minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Mays-Triplett’s check came, she saw she was paid $15.50 per hour, nearly a dollar lower than the San Diego minimum wage of $16.30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That reason, paired with others, is why Mays-Triplett decided to sign a union authorization card when organizers approached her. Undergraduate student assistants at the university are mounting a union-organizing campaign, calling for more work hours, paid sick time and higher wages. The campaign could potentially affect thousands of library assistants, clerical workers and other nonacademic student employees and comes at a time of heightened labor activism on university campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of things that are kind of unfair about our job,” she said. “So just being able to organize and address some of those issues would be really helpful.” Mays-Triplett added that she finds power in “just being able to have a voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.csueu.org/\">California State University Employees Union\u003c/a>, which represents non-student workers in similar roles, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/HEERA_STATEMENT_OF_INTEREST_v3-1.pdf\">filed petitions (PDF)\u003c/a> with the state’s Public Employment Relations Board in 2021 to add student assistants to its existing bargaining units, and has been working with student organizers to collect union authorization cards since last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thousands of student assistants signed union cards. You’re almost ready to file for an election!” organizers texted student supporters April 8. Union spokesperson Khanh Weinberg declined to make leaders available for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State has disputed the union’s claim that student workers have enough in common with other university support staff to be folded into existing bargaining units. “The Student Assistants’ primary role is that of a student and not a traditional employee,” Timothy Yeung, lawyer for the university, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/CSU_Statement_of_Issues.pdf\">wrote in December to the administrative law judge handling the case (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Stories on Education ","tag":"education"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have anything else to add on the matter,” Cal State spokesperson Mike Uhlenkamp wrote in response to an interview request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Grace Dearborn, another San Diego State student, said she deserves the same benefits as any other employee. Dearborn said she caught COVID last semester. While her supervisor allowed her to make up the hours she missed, she felt she should have gotten the paid COVID-related leave that California at the time required businesses to give full-time workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a real job for a lot of students,” Dearborn said. “We get paid and we use that pay for bills and our personal expenses … if you’re expecting for it to be a real job, but not receive sick pay, I think that that’s really weird.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several cited the discrepancy between Cal State’s minimum wage and local minimum wages as part of their motivation. University attorney Marc Mootchnik told San Diego State’s student newspaper, The Daily Aztec, in 2016 that because Cal State is a state agency, it \u003ca href=\"https://thedailyaztec.com/80394/news/city-minimum-wage-does-not-apply-at-sdsu/\">is not required to comply\u003c/a> with local minimum wage laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emma Galloway, a commuter student at \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California State University, Northridge\u003c/span>, said receiving at least the Los Angeles minimum wage of $16.50 for her work as a student assistant in the journalism department office would help her save money to move out of her parents’ house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a very big fear of being homeless, especially with the homeless crisis in Los Angeles,” she said. “I’m really grateful to have my parents and to live under a roof, but that fear kind of lingers a little bit, and I just want to save enough to the point where I can rent a one-bedroom apartment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Student assistants are a backbone” for the campus departments where they work, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 11,000 Cal State teaching assistants and other academic workers already have union representation through the United Auto Workers. But the undergraduates involved in the California State University Employees Union organizing effort are doing work that’s arguably less related to their studies — such as filing office paperwork, helping with print jobs and assisting in checking out books at the library.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More students are organizing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>They’re part of a recent wave of campus labor activism that includes the largest higher education strike in history, in which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/01/six-takeaways-for-californians-after-the-uc-graduate-student-worker-strike/\">48,000 graduate student workers at the University of California\u003c/a> walked off the job in November, eventually winning raises, transit passes and child care benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946749\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946749\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A line of protesters of all ages hold blue and white picket signs as they chant on a college campus.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS60139_007_KQED_UCStrike_11152022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff members during a strike among some 48,000 academic workers across all 10 University of California campuses at the UCSF Mission Bay campus on Nov. 15, 2022. The California State University Employees Union, which represents non-student workers in similar roles, filed petitions with the state’s Public Employment Relations Board in 2021 to add student assistants into its existing bargaining units, and has been working with student organizers to collect union authorization cards since fall 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In February, Dartmouth University \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2023/02/college-swcd-reach-tentative-agreement-to-21-base-pay-proposal\">agreed to pay its student dining hall workers\u003c/a> a base wage of $21 per hour after they voted to authorize a strike — less than a year after being recognized as a union. And last month, undergraduate residential advisors at the University of Pennsylvania filed for representation with the Office and Professional Employees International Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most fundamental demand that people on college campuses are making right now is honor the principles that you say you are committed to,” said Caroline Luce, labor historian at the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and a member of the university’s lecturers’ union. “You say you’re a public-serving institution — it doesn’t make sense to be paying people wages that they can’t live on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Cal State undergraduates have been inspired by the gains made by graduate student organizing, Luce said, they face an uphill battle if the university continues to oppose the effort, because of the high turnover in their ranks.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘You say you’re a public-serving institution — it doesn’t make sense to be paying people wages that they can’t live on.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Caroline Luce, labor historian, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“If [Cal State officials] draw things out, they will win basically because the students who [are organizing] will go on to bigger and better things and it might fall apart,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://perb.ca.gov/\">Public Employment Relations Board\u003c/a> hearings to determine whether the California State University Employees Union can expand its bargaining units to include student assistants began in March and will resume June 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Either the union or the university could appeal the judge’s decision to the full board and then to a state court of appeal. If the union prevails, it could then submit cards showing majority support and petition to represent the students, said the board’s general counsel, Felix De La Torre. It could also file to create a new bargaining unit composed of student assistants only.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What makes it more unique than a typical public employee union drive is we’re dealing with individuals who straddle the line between employees and students,” said De La Torre. 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New Bill Gains Traction in Sacramento","publishDate":1649972543,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A shortened workweek for Californians could become the norm with a recently proposed bill aimed at reducing the regular 40-hour week down to 32.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed legislation, AB 2932 — co-sponsored by Assemblymembers Cristina Garcia and Evan Low — would apply to around 20% of the state's workforce, with more than 500 employees at the national level. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/file/indsize/Chart_SOB2021_2.pdf\">Employment Development Department\u003c/a>, the bill would affect around 2,600 companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any work that's done past the 32-hour cutoff would require employers to pay time and a half to workers, and work that extends past 12 hours a day would be paid at double the regular wage. However, unionized workforces would not be included.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, author, 'Shorter'\"]'For companies, the move to a four-day week is one that forces them to think a lot about how they use technology, how they use time to encourage greater collaboration, and cooperation between employees to look for efficiencies or to get rid of inefficiencies.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed legislation has been met with pushback from private industry groups. The California Chamber of Commerce added AB 2932 to its \u003ca href=\"https://advocacy.calchamber.com/2022/04/06/job-killer-update-calchamber-identifies-4-more-job-killer-bills/\">\"job killer\" list\u003c/a>, writing that the bill \"significantly increases labor costs.\" A similar bill has been introduced at the federal level by Riverside County Congressmember Mark Takano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saul Gonzalez of The California Report sat down with writer and futurist Alex Soojung-Kim Pang to discuss working fewer hours a week, which he recently wrote about in his book \"Shorter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SAUL GONZALEZ: What's the very best single argument for reducing the American and California workweek?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ALEX SOOJUNG-KIM PANG\u003c/strong>: The single best argument is that it's good for workers, it's good for companies, it's good for economies and the environment, which might be four answers in one. But the reality is it's not something that is a concession, like, wrestled from companies or for managers. It's actually something that we have seen around the world in a variety of industries, benefiting everybody equally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And why, in particular, is it good for those workers and the companies they work for?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For companies, the move to a four-day week is one that forces them to think a lot about how they use technology, how they use time to encourage greater collaboration, and cooperation between employees to look for efficiencies or to get rid of inefficiencies. The end result is that almost all companies find that they're able to do in four days what previously had taken them five or more — while at the same time, sometimes, [they are] reducing their electricity bills, their carbon footprints, ending up with a happier workforce, with people who are less stressed, less likely to burn out, and often also with managers or founders and CEOs who also share the benefits of better work-life balance, greater resilience and lower levels of stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You know, private industry has blasted these ideas. The California Chamber of Commerce is calling this California bill a job killer. We don't need to get into the particulars of their arguments, but do you at least acknowledge that it would be tougher for some industries to do this and some kind of workers versus other kind of workers? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's certainly the case that, for example, seasonal workers, it's harder to implement a four-day week, right? If you are working construction and there’s not a lot happening in the Rocky Mountains on building sites in December and January anyway, figuring out how to implement a four-day week may be a little bit more difficult. However, I think that we have seen enough examples across restaurants, nursing homes and factories doing so with the support and often sort of inspiration from top management. Richard Nixon in 1956 talked about how the four-day week was just around the corner, thanks to great Republican stewardship of the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How many hours a week do you work? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I tend to work more like four or five solid hours, six or seven days, because I've got clients in Europe. I've got two collaborators, in New Zealand and in Asia. 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However, unionized workforces would not be included.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'For companies, the move to a four-day week is one that forces them to think a lot about how they use technology, how they use time to encourage greater collaboration, and cooperation between employees to look for efficiencies or to get rid of inefficiencies.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, author, 'Shorter'","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed legislation has been met with pushback from private industry groups. The California Chamber of Commerce added AB 2932 to its \u003ca href=\"https://advocacy.calchamber.com/2022/04/06/job-killer-update-calchamber-identifies-4-more-job-killer-bills/\">\"job killer\" list\u003c/a>, writing that the bill \"significantly increases labor costs.\" A similar bill has been introduced at the federal level by Riverside County Congressmember Mark Takano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saul Gonzalez of The California Report sat down with writer and futurist Alex Soojung-Kim Pang to discuss working fewer hours a week, which he recently wrote about in his book \"Shorter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SAUL GONZALEZ: What's the very best single argument for reducing the American and California workweek?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ALEX SOOJUNG-KIM PANG\u003c/strong>: The single best argument is that it's good for workers, it's good for companies, it's good for economies and the environment, which might be four answers in one. But the reality is it's not something that is a concession, like, wrestled from companies or for managers. It's actually something that we have seen around the world in a variety of industries, benefiting everybody equally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And why, in particular, is it good for those workers and the companies they work for?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For companies, the move to a four-day week is one that forces them to think a lot about how they use technology, how they use time to encourage greater collaboration, and cooperation between employees to look for efficiencies or to get rid of inefficiencies. The end result is that almost all companies find that they're able to do in four days what previously had taken them five or more — while at the same time, sometimes, [they are] reducing their electricity bills, their carbon footprints, ending up with a happier workforce, with people who are less stressed, less likely to burn out, and often also with managers or founders and CEOs who also share the benefits of better work-life balance, greater resilience and lower levels of stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You know, private industry has blasted these ideas. The California Chamber of Commerce is calling this California bill a job killer. We don't need to get into the particulars of their arguments, but do you at least acknowledge that it would be tougher for some industries to do this and some kind of workers versus other kind of workers? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's certainly the case that, for example, seasonal workers, it's harder to implement a four-day week, right? If you are working construction and there’s not a lot happening in the Rocky Mountains on building sites in December and January anyway, figuring out how to implement a four-day week may be a little bit more difficult. However, I think that we have seen enough examples across restaurants, nursing homes and factories doing so with the support and often sort of inspiration from top management. Richard Nixon in 1956 talked about how the four-day week was just around the corner, thanks to great Republican stewardship of the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How many hours a week do you work? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I tend to work more like four or five solid hours, six or seven days, because I've got clients in Europe. I've got two collaborators, in New Zealand and in Asia. So I tend to be sort of time-shifting a little bit more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11911064/32-hour-workweek-new-bill-gains-traction-in-sacramento","authors":["11784"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8"],"tags":["news_21749","news_3733","news_30928"],"featImg":"news_11911125","label":"news"},"news_11899604":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11899604","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11899604","score":null,"sort":[1639776616000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"californias-unemployment-rate-falls-to-pre-pandemic-levels-but-still-lags-behind-other-states","title":"California's Jobless Rate Falls to Pre-Pandemic Levels, But Still Remains Highest in the Nation","publishDate":1639776616,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Hiring in California slowed significantly in November even as the state’s unemployment rate dipped below 7% for the first time since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, according to new data released Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though California’s unemployment rate fell to 6.9% in November from 7.3% in October, the state still has the highest jobless rate of all U.S. states, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data showed that California employers filled 45,700 new jobs last month. That’s less than half of the jobs the state gained in October, but it was still enough to account for nearly 22% of all U.S. job growth in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11888843\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/EDD-UNEMPLOYMENT-1020x680.jpg\"]California has added 977,200 new jobs since February, a feat Gov. Gavin Newsom called “an unprecedented achievement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state lost 2.7 million jobs in March and April of 2020, back when Newsom issued the nation’s first statewide stay-at-home order that forced many businesses to close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nineteen months later, California has regained nearly 70% of those jobs. That’s compared to 82% of jobs recovered nationwide since the start of the pandemic, according to Sung Won Sohn, professor of finance and economics at Loyola Marymount University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California “continues to see a robust recovery, creating nearly 22% of the nation’s jobs in November and the largest unemployment rate decrease since February, there’s still more work to be done getting folks back to work and supporting those hardest hit by the pandemic,” said Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White-collar office jobs accounted for more than 41% of California’s job gains in November, followed by gains in the sectors of education, health services, and leisure and hospitality, which includes restaurants and hotels. Construction jobs declined by 1,700, mostly because of employment losses for specialty trade contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties in the Bay Area, which have some of the state’s wealthiest residents, registered the lowest unemployment rates. Marin County had 2.9% unemployment, followed by Santa Clara County at 3.2% and San Francisco at 3.3%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sung Won Sohn, professor at Loyola Marymount University\"]'I don't think workers are in any hurry to go back to work … the longer they wait, the higher wage they are going to get.'[/pullquote]Los Angeles County, the nation’s most populous county with nearly 10 million residents, had a 7.1% unemployment rate. The county has a disproportionate number of service industry jobs, including in restaurants and hotels, that employers have had trouble finding workers for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imperial County, which borders Arizona and Mexico, had the state’s highest unemployment rate at 15.5%, which is typical for that county’s rural economy that relies mostly on agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other sparsely populated Central Valley counties with traditionally high unemployment rates posted numbers below the statewide average — including Shasta, Butte and Madera counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That shows the state’s job growth is not limited to the state’s population centers along the coast, said Michael Bernick, a former director of the Employment Development Department and a lawyer at the Duane Morris law firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other parts of the state are gaining and in fact doing better than they did throughout much of the pre-pandemic times,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='economy']The new unemployment data is based on surveys taken the week of Nov. 12. That survey showed that California’s workforce — defined as the number of people who are either working or looking for work — increased by 17,900 people in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the percentage of people in California’s workforce compared to the overall population remains below the U.S. level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California has averaged more than 97,000 new jobs per month since February, the state still had 1.1 million job openings at the end of October, according to the new data. That number has persisted since August as employers have struggled to find workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think workers are in any hurry to go back to work,” Sohn said. “The longer they wait, the higher wage they are going to get. And there are lots of jobs to choose from.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Even though California has added almost 1 million new jobs since February, the state still has the highest jobless rate of all U.S. states.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1639784161,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":754},"headData":{"title":"California's Jobless Rate Falls to Pre-Pandemic Levels, But Still Remains Highest in the Nation | KQED","description":"Even though California has added almost 1 million new jobs since February, the state still has the highest jobless rate of all U.S. states.","ogTitle":"California's Jobless Rate Falls to Pre-Pandemic Levels, But Still Remains Highest in the Nation","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"California's Jobless Rate Falls to Pre-Pandemic Levels, But Still Remains Highest in the Nation","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11899604 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11899604","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/12/17/californias-unemployment-rate-falls-to-pre-pandemic-levels-but-still-lags-behind-other-states/","disqusTitle":"California's Jobless Rate Falls to Pre-Pandemic Levels, But Still Remains Highest in the Nation","nprByline":"Adam Beam\u003cbr>The Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11899604/californias-unemployment-rate-falls-to-pre-pandemic-levels-but-still-lags-behind-other-states","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Hiring in California slowed significantly in November even as the state’s unemployment rate dipped below 7% for the first time since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, according to new data released Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though California’s unemployment rate fell to 6.9% in November from 7.3% in October, the state still has the highest jobless rate of all U.S. states, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data showed that California employers filled 45,700 new jobs last month. That’s less than half of the jobs the state gained in October, but it was still enough to account for nearly 22% of all U.S. job growth in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11888843","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/EDD-UNEMPLOYMENT-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>California has added 977,200 new jobs since February, a feat Gov. Gavin Newsom called “an unprecedented achievement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state lost 2.7 million jobs in March and April of 2020, back when Newsom issued the nation’s first statewide stay-at-home order that forced many businesses to close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nineteen months later, California has regained nearly 70% of those jobs. That’s compared to 82% of jobs recovered nationwide since the start of the pandemic, according to Sung Won Sohn, professor of finance and economics at Loyola Marymount University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California “continues to see a robust recovery, creating nearly 22% of the nation’s jobs in November and the largest unemployment rate decrease since February, there’s still more work to be done getting folks back to work and supporting those hardest hit by the pandemic,” said Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White-collar office jobs accounted for more than 41% of California’s job gains in November, followed by gains in the sectors of education, health services, and leisure and hospitality, which includes restaurants and hotels. Construction jobs declined by 1,700, mostly because of employment losses for specialty trade contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties in the Bay Area, which have some of the state’s wealthiest residents, registered the lowest unemployment rates. Marin County had 2.9% unemployment, followed by Santa Clara County at 3.2% and San Francisco at 3.3%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I don't think workers are in any hurry to go back to work … the longer they wait, the higher wage they are going to get.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Sung Won Sohn, professor at Loyola Marymount University","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Los Angeles County, the nation’s most populous county with nearly 10 million residents, had a 7.1% unemployment rate. The county has a disproportionate number of service industry jobs, including in restaurants and hotels, that employers have had trouble finding workers for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imperial County, which borders Arizona and Mexico, had the state’s highest unemployment rate at 15.5%, which is typical for that county’s rural economy that relies mostly on agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other sparsely populated Central Valley counties with traditionally high unemployment rates posted numbers below the statewide average — including Shasta, Butte and Madera counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That shows the state’s job growth is not limited to the state’s population centers along the coast, said Michael Bernick, a former director of the Employment Development Department and a lawyer at the Duane Morris law firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other parts of the state are gaining and in fact doing better than they did throughout much of the pre-pandemic times,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"economy"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The new unemployment data is based on surveys taken the week of Nov. 12. That survey showed that California’s workforce — defined as the number of people who are either working or looking for work — increased by 17,900 people in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the percentage of people in California’s workforce compared to the overall population remains below the U.S. level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California has averaged more than 97,000 new jobs per month since February, the state still had 1.1 million job openings at the end of October, according to the new data. That number has persisted since August as employers have struggled to find workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think workers are in any hurry to go back to work,” Sohn said. “The longer they wait, the higher wage they are going to get. And there are lots of jobs to choose from.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11899604/californias-unemployment-rate-falls-to-pre-pandemic-levels-but-still-lags-behind-other-states","authors":["byline_news_11899604"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8"],"tags":["news_3651","news_28039","news_21749","news_27698","news_16","news_17994","news_1760","news_29865","news_631","news_6387"],"featImg":"news_11899606","label":"news"},"news_11869694":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11869694","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11869694","score":null,"sort":[1618529141000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"some-laid-off-workers-must-be-offered-their-jobs-back-under-bill-sent-to-newsom","title":"Some Laid-Off Workers Must Be Offered Their Jobs Back Under Bill Sent to Newsom","publishDate":1618529141,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>As more businesses reopen across California as coronavirus cases decline, the Legislature on Thursday passed a bill requiring some hotels and other hospitality companies to offer laid-off workers their jobs back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitality companies were some of the hardest hit by the state's stay-at-home order, with no people to stay in hotels while empty office buildings and deserted airports needed fewer janitors and food service workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom has been relaxing coronavirus restrictions as more people are getting vaccinated and the number of new cases declines. If things continue to improve, Newsom said he will lift all restrictions on June 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With companies preparing to resume normal operations, Democrats who control the Legislature said they wanted to make sure laid-off hospitality workers are first in line to get their old jobs back. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB93\">Senate Bill 93\u003c/a> requires hotels, private clubs and janitorial service companies to let their former employees know when their jobs are available again and give them five days to decide on whether they want to come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature passed a similar bill last year. But Newsom vetoed it, saying it was too broad and put too much of a burden on struggling businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers made revisions this year to change Newsom's mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one thing, the new bill only applies to workers who had their job for at least six months before the pandemic started and were laid off specifically because of the pandemic. Also, laid-off workers cannot file lawsuits to enforce the law. Instead, the Division of Labor Standards has \"exclusive jurisdiction\" to enforce it. And the bill will automatically expire on Dec. 31, 2024, unless lawmakers agree to extend it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has not said if he will sign this bill into law. But lawmakers used the budget process to pass the bill, meaning the governor's office was part of the negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Labor Coverage' tag='labor']The bill applies to hotels with 50 or more rooms, and event centers – including stadiums, arenas, racetracks and convention centers – that have at least 50,000 square feet or 1,000 seats used for public performances or meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses that don't comply could be hit with fines of $500 per employee per day. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Heath Flora, R-Ripon, said most companies don't need to be forced to rehire their former workers, saying many will be eager to do so because those workers are already trained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But to put the burden, to the fines, the fees, the liability on the employer is unacceptable,\" Flora said on Monday during a debate on the bill in the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats said the the bill protects workers. State Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, said women lost more jobs and left the workforce in greater numbers than men during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So you could also look at this bill as a very important bill to get women back in the workplace,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The bill lawmakers passed on Thursday applies to hospitality employees who had their jobs at least six months before the pandemic started and who lost their jobs because of it.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1618531426,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":494},"headData":{"title":"Some Laid-Off Workers Must Be Offered Their Jobs Back Under Bill Sent to Newsom | KQED","description":"The bill lawmakers passed on Thursday applies to hospitality employees who had their jobs at least six months before the pandemic started and who lost their jobs because of it.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11869694 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11869694","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/04/15/some-laid-off-workers-must-be-offered-their-jobs-back-under-bill-sent-to-newsom/","disqusTitle":"Some Laid-Off Workers Must Be Offered Their Jobs Back Under Bill Sent to Newsom","nprByline":"Adam Beam\u003cbr />Associated Press","path":"/news/11869694/some-laid-off-workers-must-be-offered-their-jobs-back-under-bill-sent-to-newsom","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As more businesses reopen across California as coronavirus cases decline, the Legislature on Thursday passed a bill requiring some hotels and other hospitality companies to offer laid-off workers their jobs back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitality companies were some of the hardest hit by the state's stay-at-home order, with no people to stay in hotels while empty office buildings and deserted airports needed fewer janitors and food service workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom has been relaxing coronavirus restrictions as more people are getting vaccinated and the number of new cases declines. If things continue to improve, Newsom said he will lift all restrictions on June 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With companies preparing to resume normal operations, Democrats who control the Legislature said they wanted to make sure laid-off hospitality workers are first in line to get their old jobs back. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB93\">Senate Bill 93\u003c/a> requires hotels, private clubs and janitorial service companies to let their former employees know when their jobs are available again and give them five days to decide on whether they want to come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature passed a similar bill last year. But Newsom vetoed it, saying it was too broad and put too much of a burden on struggling businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers made revisions this year to change Newsom's mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one thing, the new bill only applies to workers who had their job for at least six months before the pandemic started and were laid off specifically because of the pandemic. Also, laid-off workers cannot file lawsuits to enforce the law. Instead, the Division of Labor Standards has \"exclusive jurisdiction\" to enforce it. And the bill will automatically expire on Dec. 31, 2024, unless lawmakers agree to extend it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has not said if he will sign this bill into law. But lawmakers used the budget process to pass the bill, meaning the governor's office was part of the negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Labor Coverage ","tag":"labor"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The bill applies to hotels with 50 or more rooms, and event centers – including stadiums, arenas, racetracks and convention centers – that have at least 50,000 square feet or 1,000 seats used for public performances or meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses that don't comply could be hit with fines of $500 per employee per day. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Heath Flora, R-Ripon, said most companies don't need to be forced to rehire their former workers, saying many will be eager to do so because those workers are already trained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But to put the burden, to the fines, the fees, the liability on the employer is unacceptable,\" Flora said on Monday during a debate on the bill in the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats said the the bill protects workers. State Sen. 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The 55-year-old, who proudly describes himself as a hardworking man, said he hasn’t been able to find a steady job since March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the beginning, it wasn't so easy for me to stand in line to get food because I was able to provide for myself in the past,” said Moreno, who shares a studio apartment with a roommate. “But now, that’s the only way that we can stretch the money, pay the rent and eat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreno used to bake pastries and prepare organic salads at a restaurant frequented by tech employees working in offices in downtown San Francisco. But after shelter-in-place orders were issued, most of those office workers stayed home and the restaurant abruptly closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreno said his last paycheck went to cover rent. He had hardly any savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I ended up with probably less than $20 in my pocket,” said Moreno, an immigrant from Mexico who has worked in the U.S. for nearly two decades. “I started thinking, how am I going to survive next month?” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Victor Moreno\"]'You have the hope that everything is going to be OK. But now, after seven months, we are running out of money, we are running out of food, we are running out of patience.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restaurant industry has suffered greatly during the pandemic. Between February and July, the state lost nearly 350,000 food service jobs, about a quarter of the positions in the industry, according to the most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/data/employment-by-industry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">estimates\u003c/a> by the California Employment Development Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates and industry insiders believe job losses may be much higher, in part because many workers are undocumented and are paid off the books. The California Restaurant Association, for instance, estimates that up to 1 million workers have been furloughed or laid off since March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some California counties with lower risk for COVID-19, restaurants may now reopen for limited indoor dining, after an \u003ca href=\"https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/operations/california-starts-reopening-restaurant-dining-rooms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announcement\u003c/a> by Gov. Gavin Newsom last month. As of Tuesday, restaurants in San Francisco, Santa Clara and Napa counties could \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/safer-economy/#reopening-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">open indoors\u003c/a> for up to 25% of their capacity or 100 people, whichever is fewer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But restaurants in the rest of the Bay Area and most of the state must continue surviving on takeout, delivery and outdoor dining for those establishments that can manage it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When scarce restaurant jobs are posted, competition can be fierce. One manager in San Francisco reported that more than 100 applicants replied within hours for a newly advertised server position, said Amy Cleary, a spokeswoman with the Golden Gate Restaurant Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor Moreno said he has applied for more than 10 openings in restaurant kitchens and delis since being laid off. Some employers told him dozens of people applied for the same positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have the hope that everything is going to be OK. But now, after seven months, we are running out of money, we are running out of food, we are running out of patience,” Moreno said. “It's just terrible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11837234 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shirley Pablo Perez helps Victor Moreno check in at a food pantry that Street Level Health Project opened up during the pandemic in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maria Moreno, a community organizer for Restaurant Opportunities Center of the Bay Area (who’s no relation to Victor Moreno), said unemployment remains severe since restaurants that have reopened or stayed open are not operating at full capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tons of people who were laid off don’t have a big pool of employment to tap into,” she said. “We’ve had some of our workers apply to other industries like construction ... but a lot of them have been unemployed for months on end, with not a lot of choices for jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an asylee who has received work authorization, Victor Moreno is eligible for unemployment insurance. But he has not applied because he fears the Trump administration’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/archive/public-charge-fact-sheet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public charge\u003c/a>” rule could hurt his ability to become a permanent resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rule, which was finalized earlier this year, penalizes green card applicants if they use certain public benefits. But it wouldn’t affect Moreno as asylees are exempt and unemployment insurance is \u003ca href=\"https://immigrationimpact.com/2020/04/06/unemployment-for-immigrants-public-charge/#.X1lPiWdKjR0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not considered\u003c/a>, because workers pay into it from their paychecks. The rule is currently being challenged in the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To earn his share of the $1,000 rent he splits with his roommate, Moreno said he has found occasional odd jobs. He even spent a couple of days traveling 60 miles by bus each way to Napa to fertilize and irrigate vineyards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But without a stable job, he worries constantly about paying the rent, especially as his roommate is moving away soon, he said. Moreno is one of about a third of California renters — nearly 4 million adults — who report low or no confidence they will make next month’s rent, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2020/demo/hhp/hhp12.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">household survey\u003c/a> on the pandemic’s impact by the U.S. Census Bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11837237\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman looks through a box of fresh produce and groceries at a food pantry that opened up during the pandemic in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the midst of this crisis, Moreno has found unexpected support from people in his neighborhood, a place where many struggle financially and which has one of the highest \u003ca href=\"https://covid-19.acgov.org/data.page?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 case rates\u003c/a> in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps it shouldn’t have been a surprise. Moreno is well known at local nonprofits for donating his time and effort over the years, said Gabriela Galicia, executive director at Street Level Health Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think he has provided a lot to the community,” said Galicia, who first met Moreno when he volunteered his restaurant skills to cook nutritious lunches for day laborers and others who sought services from the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He's always been socially justice oriented. And I feel like that also just comes from his own experiences as an immigrant,” Galicia added. “Victor knows how to talk to community members in a way where they feel heard and understood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Street Level Health Project now offers the weekly food pantry that Moreno has relied on since April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11837236\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victor Moreno holds up prepared meals he received at a food pantry. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Moreno has also received help from a friend he met while volunteering at Peralta Hacienda, a nearby historical park and museum. He used to prepare meals for fundraisers and community events at Peralta, said Shadé Cortez, a staffer there at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We became really good friends,” said Cortez, 27, who now does administrative work for an artisanal bread shop in Oakland. “He’s a person that I really trust and I’m really thankful for his friendship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they heard Moreno was struggling financially, Cortez and her mother decided to drop several bags of groceries by his door. The pair also tucked $100 in a carton of eggs, so Moreno would find the money only after they had left. [aside tag=\"restaurant, jobs\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew that if I gave him the money in his hand, he wouldn't take it. So my mom and I came up with the idea of hiding it in the groceries,” Cortez said. “If we can come together as a community and help one another, then I think we can make things at least a little better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreno said Cortez has repeated the generous gesture at least four more times in the past months. His eyes teared up as he spoke about his friend’s kindness, which he compared to a flickering light in the darkness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My faith in humanity was renewed,” said Moreno, his voice trembling. “I’ve never had anybody bring me food to my house.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As restaurant jobs cratered, one Oakland man found sustenance in the generosity of his community.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1599776742,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1390},"headData":{"title":"The Pandemic Took His Job, But His Neighbors Gave Him Hope | KQED","description":"As restaurant jobs cratered, one Oakland man found sustenance in the generosity of his community.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11837227 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11837227","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/09/10/the-pandemic-took-his-job-but-his-neighbors-gave-him-hope/","disqusTitle":"The Pandemic Took His Job, But His Neighbors Gave Him Hope","source":"News","sourceUrl":"http://kqed.org/","path":"/news/11837227/the-pandemic-took-his-job-but-his-neighbors-gave-him-hope","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On a recent Tuesday afternoon, Victor Moreno strapped on his backpack and walked half a mile from his apartment to a food pantry in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weekly trek to pick up fresh produce and prepared meals has become part of Moreno’s routine in recent months. The 55-year-old, who proudly describes himself as a hardworking man, said he hasn’t been able to find a steady job since March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the beginning, it wasn't so easy for me to stand in line to get food because I was able to provide for myself in the past,” said Moreno, who shares a studio apartment with a roommate. “But now, that’s the only way that we can stretch the money, pay the rent and eat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreno used to bake pastries and prepare organic salads at a restaurant frequented by tech employees working in offices in downtown San Francisco. But after shelter-in-place orders were issued, most of those office workers stayed home and the restaurant abruptly closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreno said his last paycheck went to cover rent. He had hardly any savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I ended up with probably less than $20 in my pocket,” said Moreno, an immigrant from Mexico who has worked in the U.S. for nearly two decades. “I started thinking, how am I going to survive next month?” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'You have the hope that everything is going to be OK. But now, after seven months, we are running out of money, we are running out of food, we are running out of patience.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Victor Moreno","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restaurant industry has suffered greatly during the pandemic. Between February and July, the state lost nearly 350,000 food service jobs, about a quarter of the positions in the industry, according to the most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/data/employment-by-industry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">estimates\u003c/a> by the California Employment Development Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates and industry insiders believe job losses may be much higher, in part because many workers are undocumented and are paid off the books. The California Restaurant Association, for instance, estimates that up to 1 million workers have been furloughed or laid off since March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some California counties with lower risk for COVID-19, restaurants may now reopen for limited indoor dining, after an \u003ca href=\"https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/operations/california-starts-reopening-restaurant-dining-rooms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announcement\u003c/a> by Gov. Gavin Newsom last month. As of Tuesday, restaurants in San Francisco, Santa Clara and Napa counties could \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/safer-economy/#reopening-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">open indoors\u003c/a> for up to 25% of their capacity or 100 people, whichever is fewer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But restaurants in the rest of the Bay Area and most of the state must continue surviving on takeout, delivery and outdoor dining for those establishments that can manage it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When scarce restaurant jobs are posted, competition can be fierce. One manager in San Francisco reported that more than 100 applicants replied within hours for a newly advertised server position, said Amy Cleary, a spokeswoman with the Golden Gate Restaurant Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor Moreno said he has applied for more than 10 openings in restaurant kitchens and delis since being laid off. Some employers told him dozens of people applied for the same positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have the hope that everything is going to be OK. But now, after seven months, we are running out of money, we are running out of food, we are running out of patience,” Moreno said. “It's just terrible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11837234 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shirley Pablo Perez helps Victor Moreno check in at a food pantry that Street Level Health Project opened up during the pandemic in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maria Moreno, a community organizer for Restaurant Opportunities Center of the Bay Area (who’s no relation to Victor Moreno), said unemployment remains severe since restaurants that have reopened or stayed open are not operating at full capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tons of people who were laid off don’t have a big pool of employment to tap into,” she said. “We’ve had some of our workers apply to other industries like construction ... but a lot of them have been unemployed for months on end, with not a lot of choices for jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an asylee who has received work authorization, Victor Moreno is eligible for unemployment insurance. But he has not applied because he fears the Trump administration’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/archive/public-charge-fact-sheet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public charge\u003c/a>” rule could hurt his ability to become a permanent resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rule, which was finalized earlier this year, penalizes green card applicants if they use certain public benefits. But it wouldn’t affect Moreno as asylees are exempt and unemployment insurance is \u003ca href=\"https://immigrationimpact.com/2020/04/06/unemployment-for-immigrants-public-charge/#.X1lPiWdKjR0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not considered\u003c/a>, because workers pay into it from their paychecks. The rule is currently being challenged in the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To earn his share of the $1,000 rent he splits with his roommate, Moreno said he has found occasional odd jobs. He even spent a couple of days traveling 60 miles by bus each way to Napa to fertilize and irrigate vineyards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But without a stable job, he worries constantly about paying the rent, especially as his roommate is moving away soon, he said. Moreno is one of about a third of California renters — nearly 4 million adults — who report low or no confidence they will make next month’s rent, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2020/demo/hhp/hhp12.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">household survey\u003c/a> on the pandemic’s impact by the U.S. Census Bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11837237\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman looks through a box of fresh produce and groceries at a food pantry that opened up during the pandemic in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the midst of this crisis, Moreno has found unexpected support from people in his neighborhood, a place where many struggle financially and which has one of the highest \u003ca href=\"https://covid-19.acgov.org/data.page?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 case rates\u003c/a> in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps it shouldn’t have been a surprise. Moreno is well known at local nonprofits for donating his time and effort over the years, said Gabriela Galicia, executive director at Street Level Health Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think he has provided a lot to the community,” said Galicia, who first met Moreno when he volunteered his restaurant skills to cook nutritious lunches for day laborers and others who sought services from the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He's always been socially justice oriented. And I feel like that also just comes from his own experiences as an immigrant,” Galicia added. “Victor knows how to talk to community members in a way where they feel heard and understood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Street Level Health Project now offers the weekly food pantry that Moreno has relied on since April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11837236\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victor Moreno holds up prepared meals he received at a food pantry. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Moreno has also received help from a friend he met while volunteering at Peralta Hacienda, a nearby historical park and museum. He used to prepare meals for fundraisers and community events at Peralta, said Shadé Cortez, a staffer there at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We became really good friends,” said Cortez, 27, who now does administrative work for an artisanal bread shop in Oakland. “He’s a person that I really trust and I’m really thankful for his friendship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they heard Moreno was struggling financially, Cortez and her mother decided to drop several bags of groceries by his door. The pair also tucked $100 in a carton of eggs, so Moreno would find the money only after they had left. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"restaurant, jobs","label":"More Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew that if I gave him the money in his hand, he wouldn't take it. So my mom and I came up with the idea of hiding it in the groceries,” Cortez said. “If we can come together as a community and help one another, then I think we can make things at least a little better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreno said Cortez has repeated the generous gesture at least four more times in the past months. His eyes teared up as he spoke about his friend’s kindness, which he compared to a flickering light in the darkness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My faith in humanity was renewed,” said Moreno, his voice trembling. “I’ve never had anybody bring me food to my house.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11837227/the-pandemic-took-his-job-but-his-neighbors-gave-him-hope","authors":["8659"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_24805","news_27350","news_27504","news_21749","news_85","news_1775","news_27208","news_21358","news_20202","news_1760","news_26422","news_24494","news_20967","news_26943","news_631"],"featImg":"news_11837233","label":"source_news_11837227"},"news_11831898":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11831898","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11831898","score":null,"sort":[1596632420000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"working-full-time-for-unemployment-one-mans-months-long-struggle-for-his-benefits","title":"Working Full Time for Unemployment: One Man's Months-Long Struggle for His Benefits","publishDate":1596632420,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Antonio Rael has California’s Employment Development Department (EDD) on speed dial, but he knows the numbers and call-in process by heart anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EDD is one of the state’s largest departments, and oversees all unemployment claims for Californians. [pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Antonio Rael']'I even know, like the codes: You press ‘1, 6, 7, 3’ to get through. You put in your Social Security Number, press ‘1’. And ... now they have it where it just hangs up on you. ‘Sorry, we can't help you’ — After you’ve done all that.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I even know, like the codes: you press 1, 6, 7, 3 to get through,\" Rael said. \"You put in your Social Security Number, press 1. And ... now they have it where it just hangs up on you. ‘Sorry, we can't help you’ — After you’ve done all that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rael's had plenty of time to internalize the information. Since the pandemic started, he says he’s called EDD around 5,600 times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He finally got through last week to a representative who could re-certify his application. But, until then, Rael’s was just another of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-30/edd-california-unemployment-agency-hearing-complaints\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at least 1 million claims\u003c/a> in EDD’s processing backlog, which has left thousands of Californians without the benefits they're entitled to, and has drawn criticism from multiple state officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though unemployment applicants must confirm they are looking for work (as long as they’re not too sick) to be eligible for benefits, in Rael’s case he had to make a full-time job out of pursuing his payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Just Starting to Get My Mojo Back’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Rael is 56 and lives in West Hollywood. He normally works as a makeup artist and TV stand-in. In the last five years he’s survived cancer and a heart attack, he said. He’d just gotten back into a routine with work in July 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11831908\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11831908\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-800x800.jpeg\" alt=\"Antonio Rael during one of many hospital visits in the last few years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-800x800.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-1020x1020.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-1920x1920.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-1472x1472.jpeg 1472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-1104x1104.jpeg 1104w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-912x912.jpeg 912w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-550x550.jpeg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-470x470.jpeg 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antonio Rael during one of many hospital visits in the last few years.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was starting to get, you know, my mojo back. And, you know, I was trying to get on top of my bills because the cancer had bankrupt me pretty much,” Rael explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the pandemic hit. Rael applied for regular unemployment benefits, but EDD said he wasn’t eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess because I had cancer, I hadn't put in enough time,” Rael said. “They go 18 months previous, and I was sick. So they said that I didn't have enough hours to qualify.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Rael is an independent contractor, his situation was even more complicated. The CARES Act \u003ca href=\"https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=91191FD9-9ECF-448E-B533-BF257066CBD0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">did make pandemic assistance available to unemployed freelancers\u003c/a> starting at the end of April. But, even though he was eligible, it took Rael more than 3,600 calls over the course of 10 weeks to get eight weeks’ worth of pandemic assistance back-paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Hurry Up and Wait: Grappling with Re-certification\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But just because Rael was approved didn’t mean the trouble with EDD was over. He, along with many other unemployment recipients, hit roadblocks when they tried to re-certify their unemployment — which they’re required to do every two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2020/04/15/edd-confusing-unemployment-question-clarified/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Since the first months of the pandemic\u003c/a>, EDD has acknowledged that certain qualifying questions on its forms are confusing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, according to EDD spokesperson Loree Levy, one of the questions on the re-certification form is still stymieing applicants: “Question number two asks, ‘Was there any reason other than sickness or injury where you couldn't accept a job offer?’ And a lot of people say ‘yes.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But answering \"yes,\" according to Levy, disqualifies the application in question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Loree Levy, EDD spokesperson']'You've got to remain able and available to accept that job if it were offered. It may not be out there right now, but if the job were offered, you’d be ready to take that job. And that's what we have to look for and what we're required to look for in order to pay you benefits'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People are likely answering \"yes\" because they work in fields where opportunity is very limited right now due to the pandemic, and they don’t think there are any jobs to be had. So in their minds, there is another reason: COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You've got to remain able and available to accept that job if it were offered. It may not be out there right now, but if the job were offered, you’d be ready to take that job. And that's what we have to look for and what we're required to look for in order to pay you benefits,” Levy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rael said he only figured out he was supposed to answer \"no” after he finally reached a representative who was willing to walk him through the form, question by question. They were on the phone for at least an hour and a half, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When applicants make mistakes on their forms, the forms aren’t processed. And when forms aren’t processed, people don’t get their benefits until the application is updated. That’s what happened to Rael.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>EDD: 'Staffing Isn't the Issue'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The one key obstacle to getting his benefits approved and re-certified, according to Rael, was that the EDD workers who had the most direct access to update his application only worked morning hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are the only people that can really change your account unless they call you back for an appointment,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/EmEffHarvin/status/1291177491068002306?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levy confirmed that the more complicated questions are reserved for certain early shift workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more experienced representatives we have that require about six months of training, they are the ones that we try to reserve to be able to actually take claims over the phone in the mornings and then they process claims in the afternoon so that we don't get behind on payments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Rael to get re-certified, it took more than 2,000 calls and hours on the phone with seven different representatives. He says he also got some assistance from Assemblymember Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica, and encourages others who feel lost in the process to reach out to their representatives if they haven’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his more than 5,000 calls, Rael said the workers he reached outside of the 8 a.m.-noon block and his individually scheduled phone appointments could only communicate basic information that could have just as easily been shared on a taped recording.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EDD is in the process of hiring \u003ca href=\"http://www.oesnews.com/california-workers-struggling-through-pandemic-receive-41-3-billion-in-unemployment-benefits/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than 5,000 new workers\u003c/a>. But, according to Levy, the issue isn’t too few workers in the mornings. It’s other people calling in when they could find answers online. She said the agency has a triage system to expedite the efficiency of processing claims, but it’s not working because the lines are tied up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I talk to a lot of people who have spent so much time trying to get through on the phone lines,” Levy said. “And when I get their question, it was easily answered just by looking at those \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/about_edd/coronavirus-2019/faqs.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">top FAQs\u003c/a> that we change up every week based on what we're hearing from customers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/EmEffHarvin/status/1291177508688343043?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levy thinks if Californians started taking the time to consult the FAQs instead of tying up the phone lines with simple questions the people who need more specific answers would be able to reach the representatives who can help them more easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rael disagrees with Levy’s characterization of many of the people calling. A lot of the guidance that was most helpful to Rael he got off social media. And it’s clear to him from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/583459392371625\">online worker forums\u003c/a> that he participates in that people \u003cem>are\u003c/em> consulting the digital resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know people that have called over 10,000 times, and they still don’t have their money,” Rael said. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Million More Like Rael\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Rael is now figuring out paying off the debts that piled up while he was waiting for EDD to process his claim. Now that he isn’t spending all of his time trying to secure his unemployment, he’s putting together online art classes to post on YouTube and Udemy for kids stuck at home right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/08/03/coronavirus-unemployment-1-million-california-workers-edd-payment-trap/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New reports\u003c/a> show the breakdown of the current unemployment claims in EDD’s backlog: 889,000 workers who “may be eligible with additional information” and 239,000 worker with claims “pending EDD resolution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rael’s experience gives ominous context to the likelihood they’ll be processed anytime soon. However, Gov. Gavin Newsom last week \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/07/29/governor-newsom-takes-action-to-strengthen-state-unemployment-insurance-delivery-system/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced a strike team\u003c/a> tasked with revamping the department’s dated digital presence. He also promised to streamline communications with applicants who’ve yet to get payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/DavidChiu/status/1275456972876181509\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Assembly budget subcommittee also recently held an oversight hearing to look at processes at EDD. Assemblymember David Chiu, D-San Francisco, who’s been critical of the agency, said in a statement that he’s glad the governor’s taking notice of the issues, but that the efforts he’s announced will “only scratch the surface of the disaster that is EDD.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Developments and guidance on how to file for unemployment insurance has been changing rapidly. For additional support, please refer to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11806938/how-to-file-for-unemployment-in-california-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED's guide\u003c/a>, the official \u003ca href=\"http://edd.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EDD website\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/3296311573733137\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unofficial CA unemployment help public group on Facebook\u003c/a> or this resource \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11820299/applying-for-unemployment-in-california-unofficial-facebook-group-creates-help-website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">created by volunteers\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Delays at the state Employment Development Department has left thousands Californians without the benefits they're entitled to, and has drawn criticism from multiple state officials.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1596735096,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":37,"wordCount":1685},"headData":{"title":"Working Full Time for Unemployment: One Man's Months-Long Struggle for His Benefits | KQED","description":"Delays at the state Employment Development Department has left thousands Californians without the benefits they're entitled to, and has drawn criticism from multiple state officials.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11831898 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11831898","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/08/05/working-full-time-for-unemployment-one-mans-months-long-struggle-for-his-benefits/","disqusTitle":"Working Full Time for Unemployment: One Man's Months-Long Struggle for His Benefits","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/51582e84-c97e-4178-8f7f-ac0c0116afac/audio.mp3","path":"/news/11831898/working-full-time-for-unemployment-one-mans-months-long-struggle-for-his-benefits","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Antonio Rael has California’s Employment Development Department (EDD) on speed dial, but he knows the numbers and call-in process by heart anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EDD is one of the state’s largest departments, and oversees all unemployment claims for Californians. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I even know, like the codes: You press ‘1, 6, 7, 3’ to get through. You put in your Social Security Number, press ‘1’. And ... now they have it where it just hangs up on you. ‘Sorry, we can't help you’ — After you’ve done all that.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Antonio Rael","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I even know, like the codes: you press 1, 6, 7, 3 to get through,\" Rael said. \"You put in your Social Security Number, press 1. And ... now they have it where it just hangs up on you. ‘Sorry, we can't help you’ — After you’ve done all that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rael's had plenty of time to internalize the information. Since the pandemic started, he says he’s called EDD around 5,600 times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He finally got through last week to a representative who could re-certify his application. But, until then, Rael’s was just another of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-30/edd-california-unemployment-agency-hearing-complaints\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at least 1 million claims\u003c/a> in EDD’s processing backlog, which has left thousands of Californians without the benefits they're entitled to, and has drawn criticism from multiple state officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though unemployment applicants must confirm they are looking for work (as long as they’re not too sick) to be eligible for benefits, in Rael’s case he had to make a full-time job out of pursuing his payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Just Starting to Get My Mojo Back’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Rael is 56 and lives in West Hollywood. He normally works as a makeup artist and TV stand-in. In the last five years he’s survived cancer and a heart attack, he said. He’d just gotten back into a routine with work in July 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11831908\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11831908\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-800x800.jpeg\" alt=\"Antonio Rael during one of many hospital visits in the last few years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-800x800.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-1020x1020.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-1920x1920.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-1472x1472.jpeg 1472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-1104x1104.jpeg 1104w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-912x912.jpeg 912w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-550x550.jpeg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/97FABE7B-D40F-4DEE-8DDD-0A7C17DEA49D-470x470.jpeg 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antonio Rael during one of many hospital visits in the last few years.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was starting to get, you know, my mojo back. And, you know, I was trying to get on top of my bills because the cancer had bankrupt me pretty much,” Rael explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the pandemic hit. Rael applied for regular unemployment benefits, but EDD said he wasn’t eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess because I had cancer, I hadn't put in enough time,” Rael said. “They go 18 months previous, and I was sick. So they said that I didn't have enough hours to qualify.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Rael is an independent contractor, his situation was even more complicated. The CARES Act \u003ca href=\"https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=91191FD9-9ECF-448E-B533-BF257066CBD0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">did make pandemic assistance available to unemployed freelancers\u003c/a> starting at the end of April. But, even though he was eligible, it took Rael more than 3,600 calls over the course of 10 weeks to get eight weeks’ worth of pandemic assistance back-paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Hurry Up and Wait: Grappling with Re-certification\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But just because Rael was approved didn’t mean the trouble with EDD was over. He, along with many other unemployment recipients, hit roadblocks when they tried to re-certify their unemployment — which they’re required to do every two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2020/04/15/edd-confusing-unemployment-question-clarified/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Since the first months of the pandemic\u003c/a>, EDD has acknowledged that certain qualifying questions on its forms are confusing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, according to EDD spokesperson Loree Levy, one of the questions on the re-certification form is still stymieing applicants: “Question number two asks, ‘Was there any reason other than sickness or injury where you couldn't accept a job offer?’ And a lot of people say ‘yes.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But answering \"yes,\" according to Levy, disqualifies the application in question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'You've got to remain able and available to accept that job if it were offered. It may not be out there right now, but if the job were offered, you’d be ready to take that job. And that's what we have to look for and what we're required to look for in order to pay you benefits'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Loree Levy, EDD spokesperson","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People are likely answering \"yes\" because they work in fields where opportunity is very limited right now due to the pandemic, and they don’t think there are any jobs to be had. So in their minds, there is another reason: COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You've got to remain able and available to accept that job if it were offered. It may not be out there right now, but if the job were offered, you’d be ready to take that job. And that's what we have to look for and what we're required to look for in order to pay you benefits,” Levy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rael said he only figured out he was supposed to answer \"no” after he finally reached a representative who was willing to walk him through the form, question by question. They were on the phone for at least an hour and a half, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When applicants make mistakes on their forms, the forms aren’t processed. And when forms aren’t processed, people don’t get their benefits until the application is updated. That’s what happened to Rael.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>EDD: 'Staffing Isn't the Issue'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The one key obstacle to getting his benefits approved and re-certified, according to Rael, was that the EDD workers who had the most direct access to update his application only worked morning hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are the only people that can really change your account unless they call you back for an appointment,” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1291177491068002306"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Levy confirmed that the more complicated questions are reserved for certain early shift workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more experienced representatives we have that require about six months of training, they are the ones that we try to reserve to be able to actually take claims over the phone in the mornings and then they process claims in the afternoon so that we don't get behind on payments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Rael to get re-certified, it took more than 2,000 calls and hours on the phone with seven different representatives. He says he also got some assistance from Assemblymember Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica, and encourages others who feel lost in the process to reach out to their representatives if they haven’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his more than 5,000 calls, Rael said the workers he reached outside of the 8 a.m.-noon block and his individually scheduled phone appointments could only communicate basic information that could have just as easily been shared on a taped recording.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EDD is in the process of hiring \u003ca href=\"http://www.oesnews.com/california-workers-struggling-through-pandemic-receive-41-3-billion-in-unemployment-benefits/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than 5,000 new workers\u003c/a>. But, according to Levy, the issue isn’t too few workers in the mornings. It’s other people calling in when they could find answers online. She said the agency has a triage system to expedite the efficiency of processing claims, but it’s not working because the lines are tied up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I talk to a lot of people who have spent so much time trying to get through on the phone lines,” Levy said. “And when I get their question, it was easily answered just by looking at those \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/about_edd/coronavirus-2019/faqs.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">top FAQs\u003c/a> that we change up every week based on what we're hearing from customers.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1291177508688343043"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Levy thinks if Californians started taking the time to consult the FAQs instead of tying up the phone lines with simple questions the people who need more specific answers would be able to reach the representatives who can help them more easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rael disagrees with Levy’s characterization of many of the people calling. A lot of the guidance that was most helpful to Rael he got off social media. And it’s clear to him from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/583459392371625\">online worker forums\u003c/a> that he participates in that people \u003cem>are\u003c/em> consulting the digital resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know people that have called over 10,000 times, and they still don’t have their money,” Rael said. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Million More Like Rael\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Rael is now figuring out paying off the debts that piled up while he was waiting for EDD to process his claim. Now that he isn’t spending all of his time trying to secure his unemployment, he’s putting together online art classes to post on YouTube and Udemy for kids stuck at home right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/08/03/coronavirus-unemployment-1-million-california-workers-edd-payment-trap/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New reports\u003c/a> show the breakdown of the current unemployment claims in EDD’s backlog: 889,000 workers who “may be eligible with additional information” and 239,000 worker with claims “pending EDD resolution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rael’s experience gives ominous context to the likelihood they’ll be processed anytime soon. However, Gov. Gavin Newsom last week \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/07/29/governor-newsom-takes-action-to-strengthen-state-unemployment-insurance-delivery-system/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced a strike team\u003c/a> tasked with revamping the department’s dated digital presence. He also promised to streamline communications with applicants who’ve yet to get payments.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1275456972876181509"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The Assembly budget subcommittee also recently held an oversight hearing to look at processes at EDD. Assemblymember David Chiu, D-San Francisco, who’s been critical of the agency, said in a statement that he’s glad the governor’s taking notice of the issues, but that the efforts he’s announced will “only scratch the surface of the disaster that is EDD.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Developments and guidance on how to file for unemployment insurance has been changing rapidly. For additional support, please refer to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11806938/how-to-file-for-unemployment-in-california-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED's guide\u003c/a>, the official \u003ca href=\"http://edd.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EDD website\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/3296311573733137\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unofficial CA unemployment help public group on Facebook\u003c/a> or this resource \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11820299/applying-for-unemployment-in-california-unofficial-facebook-group-creates-help-website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">created by volunteers\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11831898/working-full-time-for-unemployment-one-mans-months-long-struggle-for-his-benefits","authors":["11583"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8"],"tags":["news_27350","news_27504","news_21749","news_28340","news_631"],"featImg":"news_11831937","label":"news_72"},"news_11816098":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11816098","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11816098","score":null,"sort":[1588898536000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"silicon-valley-on-a-hiring-spree-during-coronavirus-pandemic-but-for-how-long","title":"Silicon Valley on a Hiring Spree During Coronavirus Pandemic, but for How Long?","publishDate":1588898536,"format":"audio","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/07/us-weekly-jobless-claims.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">latest unemployment data\u003c/a> show the national job market — and California's, for that matter — in the toilet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Silicon Valley, the job market isn't quite so grim — not just despite the coronavirus pandemic, but perhaps because of it. Even as the rest of the economy tanks, these are reasonably good days to be hunting for a mid-level white collar job in web development or tech support. Think about it: We're all online more than ever. We're shopping on Amazon, watching live concerts on Facebook, storing ever more photos on Apple's iCloud, and \u003ca href=\"https://trends.google.com/trends/story/US_cu_4Rjdh3ABAABMHM_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">searching\u003c/a> for baking recipes on Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collectively, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/?results_per_page=5&offices%5B0%5D=Fremont%2C%20CA&offices%5B1%5D=Los%20Angeles%2C%20CA&offices%5B2%5D=Menlo%20Park%2C%20CA&offices%5B3%5D=Mountain%20View%2C%20CA&offices%5B4%5D=Northridge%2C%20CA&offices%5B5%5D=San%20Francisco%2C%20CA&offices%5B6%5D=Santa%20Clara%2C%20CA&offices%5B7%5D=Sausalito%2C%20CA&offices%5B8%5D=Sunnyvale%2C%20CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://careers.microsoft.com/professionals/us/en/l-bayarea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/search?location=united-states-USA+california-state953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.jobs/en/search?base_query=&loc_query=California&type=area&latitude=38.57944&longitude=-121.49085®ion=California&country=USA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/?company=Google&company=Google%20Fiber&company=YouTube&employment_type=FULL_TIME&hl=en_US&jlo=en_US&location=California,%20USA&q=&sort_by=relevance&src=Online%2FHouse%20Ads%2FBKWS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alphabet\u003c/a> make up nearly \u003ca href=\"https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/nasdaq-composite-erases-2020-losses-strong-tech-earnings-stock-market-2020-4-1029178443\">40% of the market value\u003c/a> of the Nasdaq. Sure enough, all five tech titans are hiring by the hundreds, if not the thousands, in California alone. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg recently told CNBC that the Menlo Park-based social media giant plans to hire \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/02/sandberg-facebook-to-add-10000-new-workers-by-end-of-2020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10,000 people\u003c/a> this year in product and engineering.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Size Matters Now\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Experts say this particular economic downturn is favoring giants with the cash reserves to wait out a temporary revenue drop or who can pivot to expand in markets with more potential for profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1056px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11816241\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-3.32.41-PM.png\" alt=\"Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, interviewed Stanford vaccine expert Dr. Bonnie Maldonado on Facebook Live on May 1, 2020. The event was not a riveting plug for the video streaming service but more than 35,000 people did try to watch.\" width=\"1056\" height=\"1030\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-3.32.41-PM.png 1056w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-3.32.41-PM-160x156.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-3.32.41-PM-800x780.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-3.32.41-PM-1020x995.png 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1056px) 100vw, 1056px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, interviewed Stanford vaccine expert Dr. Bonnie Maldonado on Facebook Live on May 1, 2020. The event was not a riveting plug for the video streaming service, but more than 35,000 people did try to watch. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Take, for example, the online video market, which is exploding right now thanks to the pandemic. Facebook's offerings in the market include Livestream, Messenger, and most recently, Messenger Rooms, which allows up to 50 people to chat at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft declined to comment for this story, but on LinkedIn, which the Seattle software giant owns, Microsoft listed nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?keywords=Microsoft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">300,000 jobs\u003c/a> worldwide at the time of this article's publication.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.jobs/en/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon\u003c/a> has hired 175,000 people in its fulfillment and delivery network just since March, but the media focus on its retail and warehouse operations often obscures the fact that the Seattle-based company also employs armies of software developers, technical project managers and the like. Amazon is looking for more than 3,000 people in California alone currently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the biggest names in Silicon Valley, medium-sized tech employers are also looking to hire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While we have not increased our hiring in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, now more than ever, we remain committed to attracting top talent across key areas of our business,\" wrote a spokeswoman for Genentech, the South San Francisco drugmaker owned by Roche. \"So far this year, we have filled more than 1,600 positions and currently have over \u003ca href=\"https://www.gene.com/careers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1,200 roles open\u003c/a> across many areas of our business, including research and development, manufacturing, sales and marketing and IT.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a spokesman for \u003ca href=\"https://blogs.vmware.com/careers/2020/04/message-from-vmware-vp-of-talent-acquisition-on-hiring-and-supporting-our-community.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VMware\u003c/a>, the Palo Alto-based software company has more than 300 openings in California and more than 1,400 globally. VMware's vice president of talent acquisition \u003ca href=\"https://blogs.vmware.com/careers/2020/04/message-from-vmware-vp-of-talent-acquisition-on-hiring-and-supporting-our-community.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote recently\u003c/a>, \"Our hiring efforts are focused on supporting VMware’s five strategic priorities: App Modernization, Multi-Cloud, Virtual Cloud Network, Digital Workspace and Intrinsic Security.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara-based \u003ca href=\"https://jobs.intel.com/ListJobs/All\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Intel\u003c/a> has posted more than 700 jobs on its website, more than 70 of which are based here in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>It's Not All Full-time or Stable Work\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For years, Silicon Valley's biggest employers have hedged their hiring bets by splitting payroll between full-time employees and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11741371/two-tiered-caste-system-the-world-of-white-collar-contracting-in-silicon-valley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contractors\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2029px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11816242\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-1.37.02-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"Shirley Deng of Hayward is in the market for a marketing job in Silicon Valley. She's getting call backs, but says she'd have an easier time of it if she was looking for a position on the techier side of tech.\" width=\"2029\" height=\"1108\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-1.37.02-PM.jpeg 2029w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-1.37.02-PM-160x87.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-1.37.02-PM-800x437.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-1.37.02-PM-1020x557.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-1.37.02-PM-1920x1048.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2029px) 100vw, 2029px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shirley Deng of Hayward is in the market for a marketing job in Silicon Valley. She's getting call backs, but says she'd have an easier time of it if she was looking for a position on the techier side of tech. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here are the top five hiring categories in the Bay Area over the past eight weeks on Santa Clara-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.upwork.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Upwork\u003c/a>, an employment platform for white collar gig work which posts more than 8,000 freelance jobs a day worldwide:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Web Development\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Video Production\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Graphics and Design\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Web and Mobile Design\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Technical Support\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\"We're seeing a lot of activity around web development, around video production. Technical support is a big one. So there's a lot of activity where, you know, people are young trying to deploy, install and maintain technical systems for their business,\" said Hayden Brown, Upwork's president and CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown adds that, in 2020, it doesn't make sense to draw an arbitrary line between Silicon Valley and the rest of the economy when it comes to tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Increasingly, almost every company is becoming something of a digital business,\" Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of that said, your employment security depends in large part on the stability of the company you work for, as the pandemic appears to be most lethal to companies that were struggling before the onset of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shirley Deng was laid off in April, when the Palo Alto-based, no-fee payday lender startup \u003ca href=\"https://www.earnin.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Earnin\u003c/a> gutted its marketing department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Stable is like a relative term,\" Deng said ruefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Deng would prefer to work for a bigger company. She owns a house in Hayward with her fiance, and he’s still working, but paying the mortgage could become a concern in about six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of good companies that I might want to work for or envision myself with are holding off on hiring now. Like tech companies have hiring freezes unless it's a very technical role, where it’s like engineering or developer,\" Deng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The numbers back up Deng’s assessment of the market. You can see who's hiring and who's letting people go at \u003ca href=\"http://layoffs.fyi/tracker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Layoffs.fyi\u003c/a>, a tracker set up by \u003ca class=\"crunchbase-link\" href=\"https://crunchbase.com/person/roger-lee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-type=\"person\" data-entity=\"roger-lee\">Roger Lee, \u003c/a> the co-founder of \u003ca href=\"https://humaninterest.com/homepage/?utm_source=GOOGLEPS&utm_medium=SEM&utm_campaign=Brand%20-%20Human%20Interest%20Desktop&utm_content=417770811266&utm_term=human%20interest_p&utm_gclidid=EAIaIQobChMI7_T5ruSY6QIVB8NkCh1PHw7REAAYASAAEgL6NPD_BwE&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7_T5ruSY6QIVB8NkCh1PHw7REAAYASAAEgL6NPD_BwE\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Human Interest\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, a company that helps other companies set up retirement accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2138px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11816236\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-05-at-8.23.08-AM.png\" alt=\"In the market for a job in Silicon Valley? You might have better luck at a large company, compared to a start up, as this May 5, 2020 screen shot from Layoffs.fyi indicates.\" width=\"2138\" height=\"1136\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-05-at-8.23.08-AM.png 2138w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-05-at-8.23.08-AM-160x85.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-05-at-8.23.08-AM-800x425.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-05-at-8.23.08-AM-1020x542.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-05-at-8.23.08-AM-1920x1020.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2138px) 100vw, 2138px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the market for a job in Silicon Valley? You might have better luck at a large company, compared to a startup, as this May 5, 2020 screen shot from Layoffs.fyi indicates. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Deng is confident about her prospects even as she's sober about the need for the economy to take a hit to protect those most vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have a grandma who's 97 this year and I would be heartbroken if she was exposed and had any complications due to [COVID-19]. My fiance also has a vulnerable immune system. So I understand why we're staying home. But on the flip side, you know, as I'm job hunting, good companies that might have had positions that I wanted to apply to that are on hold,\" Deng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>This Port in a Storm Might Not Last\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Skeptics worry that what we’re witnessing in Silicon Valley is a temporary uptick before bad times settle in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It certainly seems like an odd time to try purposely to hire new people. Why? Why not just wait?\" asked Rachel Massaro, who directs research at the Silicon Valley Institute for Regional Studies at \u003ca href=\"https://jointventure.org/news-and-media/news-releases/1949-silicon-valley-unemployment-increased-to-3-1-in-earliest-response-to-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joint Venture Silicon Valley\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the institute, Silicon Valley’s preliminary March unemployment rate of 3.1% represented a sharp increase over February's rate, but it's still significantly lower than in the summer of 2009, when unemployment peaked at 10.5%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s possible a lot of these data points, a lot of the indicators that we're looking at, will have a lag time,\" Massaro said. \"In a few months, we'll get a better understanding of the influence of the crisis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, those Silicon Valley companies on the downswing — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11816330/airbnb-laying-off-25-of-its-workforce-due-to-travel-decline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Airbnb\u003c/a>, Eventbrite, Lyft and the like — are taking a hit because what they do is directly impacted by the pandemic. But as the economy as a whole sinks into recession, the current winners in Silicon Valley may not be able to sail above the fray for long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tech is not a monolith,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccsce.com/Steve_Levy.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stephen Levy\u003c/a>, director and senior economist of the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy in Palo Alto. “The group of people who are hiring is fairly narrow, and in some cases, short term.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple and Alphabet are hiring tens of thousands of people — despite, or perhaps, because of the COVID-19 pandemic.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1588959755,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1387},"headData":{"title":"Silicon Valley on a Hiring Spree During Coronavirus Pandemic, but for How Long? | KQED","description":"Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple and Alphabet are hiring tens of thousands of people — despite, or perhaps, because of the COVID-19 pandemic.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11816098 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11816098","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/05/07/silicon-valley-on-a-hiring-spree-during-coronavirus-pandemic-but-for-how-long/","disqusTitle":"Silicon Valley on a Hiring Spree During Coronavirus Pandemic, but for How Long?","source":"coronavirus","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirus","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/be403111-19d9-4adc-a16e-abb401010034/audio.mp3","path":"/news/11816098/silicon-valley-on-a-hiring-spree-during-coronavirus-pandemic-but-for-how-long","audioDuration":170000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/07/us-weekly-jobless-claims.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">latest unemployment data\u003c/a> show the national job market — and California's, for that matter — in the toilet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Silicon Valley, the job market isn't quite so grim — not just despite the coronavirus pandemic, but perhaps because of it. Even as the rest of the economy tanks, these are reasonably good days to be hunting for a mid-level white collar job in web development or tech support. Think about it: We're all online more than ever. We're shopping on Amazon, watching live concerts on Facebook, storing ever more photos on Apple's iCloud, and \u003ca href=\"https://trends.google.com/trends/story/US_cu_4Rjdh3ABAABMHM_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">searching\u003c/a> for baking recipes on Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collectively, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/?results_per_page=5&offices%5B0%5D=Fremont%2C%20CA&offices%5B1%5D=Los%20Angeles%2C%20CA&offices%5B2%5D=Menlo%20Park%2C%20CA&offices%5B3%5D=Mountain%20View%2C%20CA&offices%5B4%5D=Northridge%2C%20CA&offices%5B5%5D=San%20Francisco%2C%20CA&offices%5B6%5D=Santa%20Clara%2C%20CA&offices%5B7%5D=Sausalito%2C%20CA&offices%5B8%5D=Sunnyvale%2C%20CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://careers.microsoft.com/professionals/us/en/l-bayarea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/search?location=united-states-USA+california-state953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.jobs/en/search?base_query=&loc_query=California&type=area&latitude=38.57944&longitude=-121.49085®ion=California&country=USA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/?company=Google&company=Google%20Fiber&company=YouTube&employment_type=FULL_TIME&hl=en_US&jlo=en_US&location=California,%20USA&q=&sort_by=relevance&src=Online%2FHouse%20Ads%2FBKWS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alphabet\u003c/a> make up nearly \u003ca href=\"https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/nasdaq-composite-erases-2020-losses-strong-tech-earnings-stock-market-2020-4-1029178443\">40% of the market value\u003c/a> of the Nasdaq. Sure enough, all five tech titans are hiring by the hundreds, if not the thousands, in California alone. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg recently told CNBC that the Menlo Park-based social media giant plans to hire \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/02/sandberg-facebook-to-add-10000-new-workers-by-end-of-2020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10,000 people\u003c/a> this year in product and engineering.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Size Matters Now\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Experts say this particular economic downturn is favoring giants with the cash reserves to wait out a temporary revenue drop or who can pivot to expand in markets with more potential for profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1056px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11816241\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-3.32.41-PM.png\" alt=\"Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, interviewed Stanford vaccine expert Dr. Bonnie Maldonado on Facebook Live on May 1, 2020. The event was not a riveting plug for the video streaming service but more than 35,000 people did try to watch.\" width=\"1056\" height=\"1030\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-3.32.41-PM.png 1056w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-3.32.41-PM-160x156.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-3.32.41-PM-800x780.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-3.32.41-PM-1020x995.png 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1056px) 100vw, 1056px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, interviewed Stanford vaccine expert Dr. Bonnie Maldonado on Facebook Live on May 1, 2020. The event was not a riveting plug for the video streaming service, but more than 35,000 people did try to watch. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Take, for example, the online video market, which is exploding right now thanks to the pandemic. Facebook's offerings in the market include Livestream, Messenger, and most recently, Messenger Rooms, which allows up to 50 people to chat at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft declined to comment for this story, but on LinkedIn, which the Seattle software giant owns, Microsoft listed nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?keywords=Microsoft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">300,000 jobs\u003c/a> worldwide at the time of this article's publication.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.jobs/en/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon\u003c/a> has hired 175,000 people in its fulfillment and delivery network just since March, but the media focus on its retail and warehouse operations often obscures the fact that the Seattle-based company also employs armies of software developers, technical project managers and the like. Amazon is looking for more than 3,000 people in California alone currently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the biggest names in Silicon Valley, medium-sized tech employers are also looking to hire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While we have not increased our hiring in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, now more than ever, we remain committed to attracting top talent across key areas of our business,\" wrote a spokeswoman for Genentech, the South San Francisco drugmaker owned by Roche. \"So far this year, we have filled more than 1,600 positions and currently have over \u003ca href=\"https://www.gene.com/careers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1,200 roles open\u003c/a> across many areas of our business, including research and development, manufacturing, sales and marketing and IT.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a spokesman for \u003ca href=\"https://blogs.vmware.com/careers/2020/04/message-from-vmware-vp-of-talent-acquisition-on-hiring-and-supporting-our-community.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VMware\u003c/a>, the Palo Alto-based software company has more than 300 openings in California and more than 1,400 globally. VMware's vice president of talent acquisition \u003ca href=\"https://blogs.vmware.com/careers/2020/04/message-from-vmware-vp-of-talent-acquisition-on-hiring-and-supporting-our-community.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote recently\u003c/a>, \"Our hiring efforts are focused on supporting VMware’s five strategic priorities: App Modernization, Multi-Cloud, Virtual Cloud Network, Digital Workspace and Intrinsic Security.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara-based \u003ca href=\"https://jobs.intel.com/ListJobs/All\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Intel\u003c/a> has posted more than 700 jobs on its website, more than 70 of which are based here in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>It's Not All Full-time or Stable Work\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For years, Silicon Valley's biggest employers have hedged their hiring bets by splitting payroll between full-time employees and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11741371/two-tiered-caste-system-the-world-of-white-collar-contracting-in-silicon-valley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contractors\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2029px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11816242\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-1.37.02-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"Shirley Deng of Hayward is in the market for a marketing job in Silicon Valley. She's getting call backs, but says she'd have an easier time of it if she was looking for a position on the techier side of tech.\" width=\"2029\" height=\"1108\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-1.37.02-PM.jpeg 2029w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-1.37.02-PM-160x87.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-1.37.02-PM-800x437.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-1.37.02-PM-1020x557.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-1.37.02-PM-1920x1048.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2029px) 100vw, 2029px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shirley Deng of Hayward is in the market for a marketing job in Silicon Valley. She's getting call backs, but says she'd have an easier time of it if she was looking for a position on the techier side of tech. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here are the top five hiring categories in the Bay Area over the past eight weeks on Santa Clara-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.upwork.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Upwork\u003c/a>, an employment platform for white collar gig work which posts more than 8,000 freelance jobs a day worldwide:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Web Development\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Video Production\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Graphics and Design\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Web and Mobile Design\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Technical Support\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\"We're seeing a lot of activity around web development, around video production. Technical support is a big one. So there's a lot of activity where, you know, people are young trying to deploy, install and maintain technical systems for their business,\" said Hayden Brown, Upwork's president and CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown adds that, in 2020, it doesn't make sense to draw an arbitrary line between Silicon Valley and the rest of the economy when it comes to tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Increasingly, almost every company is becoming something of a digital business,\" Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of that said, your employment security depends in large part on the stability of the company you work for, as the pandemic appears to be most lethal to companies that were struggling before the onset of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shirley Deng was laid off in April, when the Palo Alto-based, no-fee payday lender startup \u003ca href=\"https://www.earnin.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Earnin\u003c/a> gutted its marketing department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Stable is like a relative term,\" Deng said ruefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Deng would prefer to work for a bigger company. She owns a house in Hayward with her fiance, and he’s still working, but paying the mortgage could become a concern in about six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of good companies that I might want to work for or envision myself with are holding off on hiring now. Like tech companies have hiring freezes unless it's a very technical role, where it’s like engineering or developer,\" Deng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The numbers back up Deng’s assessment of the market. You can see who's hiring and who's letting people go at \u003ca href=\"http://layoffs.fyi/tracker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Layoffs.fyi\u003c/a>, a tracker set up by \u003ca class=\"crunchbase-link\" href=\"https://crunchbase.com/person/roger-lee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-type=\"person\" data-entity=\"roger-lee\">Roger Lee, \u003c/a> the co-founder of \u003ca href=\"https://humaninterest.com/homepage/?utm_source=GOOGLEPS&utm_medium=SEM&utm_campaign=Brand%20-%20Human%20Interest%20Desktop&utm_content=417770811266&utm_term=human%20interest_p&utm_gclidid=EAIaIQobChMI7_T5ruSY6QIVB8NkCh1PHw7REAAYASAAEgL6NPD_BwE&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7_T5ruSY6QIVB8NkCh1PHw7REAAYASAAEgL6NPD_BwE\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Human Interest\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, a company that helps other companies set up retirement accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2138px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11816236\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-05-at-8.23.08-AM.png\" alt=\"In the market for a job in Silicon Valley? You might have better luck at a large company, compared to a start up, as this May 5, 2020 screen shot from Layoffs.fyi indicates.\" width=\"2138\" height=\"1136\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-05-at-8.23.08-AM.png 2138w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-05-at-8.23.08-AM-160x85.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-05-at-8.23.08-AM-800x425.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-05-at-8.23.08-AM-1020x542.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-05-at-8.23.08-AM-1920x1020.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2138px) 100vw, 2138px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the market for a job in Silicon Valley? You might have better luck at a large company, compared to a startup, as this May 5, 2020 screen shot from Layoffs.fyi indicates. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Deng is confident about her prospects even as she's sober about the need for the economy to take a hit to protect those most vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have a grandma who's 97 this year and I would be heartbroken if she was exposed and had any complications due to [COVID-19]. My fiance also has a vulnerable immune system. So I understand why we're staying home. But on the flip side, you know, as I'm job hunting, good companies that might have had positions that I wanted to apply to that are on hold,\" Deng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>This Port in a Storm Might Not Last\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Skeptics worry that what we’re witnessing in Silicon Valley is a temporary uptick before bad times settle in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It certainly seems like an odd time to try purposely to hire new people. Why? Why not just wait?\" asked Rachel Massaro, who directs research at the Silicon Valley Institute for Regional Studies at \u003ca href=\"https://jointventure.org/news-and-media/news-releases/1949-silicon-valley-unemployment-increased-to-3-1-in-earliest-response-to-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joint Venture Silicon Valley\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the institute, Silicon Valley’s preliminary March unemployment rate of 3.1% represented a sharp increase over February's rate, but it's still significantly lower than in the summer of 2009, when unemployment peaked at 10.5%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s possible a lot of these data points, a lot of the indicators that we're looking at, will have a lag time,\" Massaro said. \"In a few months, we'll get a better understanding of the influence of the crisis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, those Silicon Valley companies on the downswing — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11816330/airbnb-laying-off-25-of-its-workforce-due-to-travel-decline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Airbnb\u003c/a>, Eventbrite, Lyft and the like — are taking a hit because what they do is directly impacted by the pandemic. But as the economy as a whole sinks into recession, the current winners in Silicon Valley may not be able to sail above the fray for long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tech is not a monolith,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccsce.com/Steve_Levy.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stephen Levy\u003c/a>, director and senior economist of the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy in Palo Alto. “The group of people who are hiring is fairly narrow, and in some cases, short term.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11816098/silicon-valley-on-a-hiring-spree-during-coronavirus-pandemic-but-for-how-long","authors":["251"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8","news_248"],"tags":["news_1735","news_24027","news_1611","news_19182","news_27350","news_27504","news_21749","news_249","news_26010","news_17994","news_93","news_4524","news_3952","news_2011","news_353","news_631"],"featImg":"news_11817019","label":"source_news_11816098"},"news_11808038":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11808038","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11808038","score":null,"sort":[1584913688000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-its-like-to-graduate-college-during-a-pandemic","title":"What It's Like to Graduate College During a Pandemic","publishDate":1584913688,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>For Madeline Nielander, a senior at the University of San Francisco, this coming May was supposed to be a celebratory time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her family was going to see her graduate with a degree in communications. Then, she was going to try to work at a hotel in downtown San Francisco with a friend of hers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now, those plans have definitely dissolved,\" Nielander said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spring semester for Bay Area college seniors — usually a time filled with festivities and the excitement of future prospects — is now a frustrating and anxiety-ridden moment. For many of these students, the coronavirus pandemic is disrupting graduation ceremonies and stripping away employment opportunities just as they enter the job market. Many are already in a financially vulnerable situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USF has already announced that May graduation would be postponed. \"I am appointing a group comprised of representatives from across the university to study possibilities for alternative ceremonies and celebrations,\" USF President Paul J. Fitzgerald said in an \u003ca href=\"https://myusf.usfca.edu/announcement/spring-2020-commencement-ceremonies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announcement\u003c/a> last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Honestly, it was a huge bummer,\" Nielander said after hearing about the postponement. \"Graduating has been something that I thought about for a long time. I feel like it's such a huge milestone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielander, who has stayed in San Francisco since the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11806988/sheltering-in-place-what-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shelter-in-place order announced on March 16\u003c/a> by several counties, said that she's had to deal with another complicating factor: Her bartending job temporarily laid her off for 60 days without pay, with a promise to hire her back on. On Friday, she filed for unemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Nielander said she's saved up enough money to keep paying for rent and groceries, for now, she doesn't know what employment opportunities will look like after getting her degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An analysis by Goldman Sachs released on March 19 shows that Nielander's fears are real: The investment bank and financial services group said U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-20/u-s-weekly-jobless-claims-could-exceed-2-million-goldman-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jobless claims could exceed 2 million this coming week\u003c/a>. So far, in California, unemployment claims \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocregister.com/2020/03/19/coronavirus-pushes-california-unemployment-claims-to-80000-in-a-day/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have spiked 42%\u003c/a> compared to last year. And analysts are now speculating that the economy may plunge into the worst crisis \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/20/analyst-anticipates-worst-crisis-since-1929-amid-recession-fears.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">since the Great Depression\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm trying not to focus too hard on what will happen after [I graduate],\" Nielander said. \"Because I really honestly don't know what will happen tomorrow.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaron Borunda, a senior at San Francisco State University, said he'd been looking forward to this spring semester for his whole college career. He'd gotten past his core classes and could now take more advanced ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But ever since SFSU \u003ca href=\"https://commencement.sfsu.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">postponed graduation\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://news.sfsu.edu/announcements/university-suspends-face-face-classes-prepare-remote-instruction-and-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shifted classes online\u003c/a> on March 9, that excitement has drained. As a broadcast and communications arts major, most of his classes are almost impossible to do anymore, he said, since they normally would involve setting up video equipment and filming people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11808099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11808099\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/IMG_1941-copy-1-1020x818.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/IMG_1941-copy-1-1020x818.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/IMG_1941-copy-1-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/IMG_1941-copy-1-800x642.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/IMG_1941-copy-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron Borunda, a senior broadcast and communications arts major at San Francisco State University. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Aaron Borunda)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I know some people are kind of happy [about online classes],\" said Borunda, who is from Los Angeles. \"But for people that really want to learn and get their money's worth, I think we're all pretty pissed off right now.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he's considering asking the university for a refund. Some colleges around the country have already said they \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/to-fight-coronavirus-colleges-sent-students-home-now-will-they-refund-tuition-11584625536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">will not offer refunds\u003c/a>, according to the Wall Street Journal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borunda also said his plans to stay in the city after graduation are now in limbo. He had hoped to get a job as a sound tech after school but thinks it'll be difficult since many music venues are now shuttered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I could, I would love to stay in the Bay Area, but that's gonna [be] harder than ever,\" Borunda said. He may have to move back to his parent’s home now as employment opportunities dry up and bills start coming in. \"I'm gonna be one in a million people that are looking for jobs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student debt is also a concern. \"It's gonna be a struggle enough to figure out how I'm gonna pay rent, but paying rent on top of student loans,” said Borunda. \"I'm probably gonna have only a couple hundred dollars of spending money a month.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, the Department of Education \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/20/818977484/education-dept-makes-changes-to-standardized-tests-student-loans-over-coronaviru\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced several changes to federal student loan policy\u003c/a>, including that borrowers will have their interest rates set to zero percent for the next 60 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Corn, a senior who transferred from Moorpark College to UC Berkeley, said he's worked hard to get his political science degree and is disappointed he won’t be able to walk the stage during graduation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[We] wanted the celebration, this sense of closure, this moment to celebrate your accomplishments and make everyone proud, because we all know it's not just you, it's everyone who has helped you along the way,\" said Corn, who has temporarily moved back to be with his family in Los Angeles since Berkeley \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/03/09/as-coronavirus-spreads-uc-berkeley-suspends-in-person-instruction/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced classes were to shift online on March 10\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been an emotional roller coaster, to say the least,\" Corn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11808097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11808097 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/IMG_4789-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/IMG_4789-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/IMG_4789-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/IMG_4789-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/IMG_4789-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/IMG_4789.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon Corn, a senior political science major at UC Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jon Corn)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Corn, who deals with a physical disability, said Berkeley was the first place where he had successfully managed to live on his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[It] was an incredible challenge that I had successfully been able to overcome and manage very well,\" Corn said. \"So the fact that there is no graduation to really celebrate my incredible accomplishments definitely frustrates me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corn's plan was to move to Washington, D.C., for a job in politics after graduation but he doesn't know if that's going to happen anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No one knows,\" Corn said. \"I'm applying [to jobs]. I'm really trying to keep it as normal as possible, just applying and doing everything as I normally would.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Spring semester for Bay Area college seniors — usually a time filled with festivities and the excitement of future prospects — is now a frustrating and anxiety-ridden moment for many of these students as the coronavirus pandemic disrupts their post-grad plans.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1588171732,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":983},"headData":{"title":"What It's Like to Graduate College During a Pandemic | KQED","description":"Spring semester for Bay Area college seniors — usually a time filled with festivities and the excitement of future prospects — is now a frustrating and anxiety-ridden moment for many of these students as the coronavirus pandemic disrupts their post-grad plans.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11808038 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11808038","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/03/22/what-its-like-to-graduate-college-during-a-pandemic/","disqusTitle":"What It's Like to Graduate College During a Pandemic","path":"/news/11808038/what-its-like-to-graduate-college-during-a-pandemic","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For Madeline Nielander, a senior at the University of San Francisco, this coming May was supposed to be a celebratory time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her family was going to see her graduate with a degree in communications. Then, she was going to try to work at a hotel in downtown San Francisco with a friend of hers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now, those plans have definitely dissolved,\" Nielander said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spring semester for Bay Area college seniors — usually a time filled with festivities and the excitement of future prospects — is now a frustrating and anxiety-ridden moment. For many of these students, the coronavirus pandemic is disrupting graduation ceremonies and stripping away employment opportunities just as they enter the job market. Many are already in a financially vulnerable situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USF has already announced that May graduation would be postponed. \"I am appointing a group comprised of representatives from across the university to study possibilities for alternative ceremonies and celebrations,\" USF President Paul J. Fitzgerald said in an \u003ca href=\"https://myusf.usfca.edu/announcement/spring-2020-commencement-ceremonies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announcement\u003c/a> last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Honestly, it was a huge bummer,\" Nielander said after hearing about the postponement. \"Graduating has been something that I thought about for a long time. I feel like it's such a huge milestone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielander, who has stayed in San Francisco since the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11806988/sheltering-in-place-what-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shelter-in-place order announced on March 16\u003c/a> by several counties, said that she's had to deal with another complicating factor: Her bartending job temporarily laid her off for 60 days without pay, with a promise to hire her back on. On Friday, she filed for unemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Nielander said she's saved up enough money to keep paying for rent and groceries, for now, she doesn't know what employment opportunities will look like after getting her degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An analysis by Goldman Sachs released on March 19 shows that Nielander's fears are real: The investment bank and financial services group said U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-20/u-s-weekly-jobless-claims-could-exceed-2-million-goldman-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jobless claims could exceed 2 million this coming week\u003c/a>. So far, in California, unemployment claims \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocregister.com/2020/03/19/coronavirus-pushes-california-unemployment-claims-to-80000-in-a-day/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have spiked 42%\u003c/a> compared to last year. And analysts are now speculating that the economy may plunge into the worst crisis \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/20/analyst-anticipates-worst-crisis-since-1929-amid-recession-fears.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">since the Great Depression\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm trying not to focus too hard on what will happen after [I graduate],\" Nielander said. \"Because I really honestly don't know what will happen tomorrow.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaron Borunda, a senior at San Francisco State University, said he'd been looking forward to this spring semester for his whole college career. He'd gotten past his core classes and could now take more advanced ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But ever since SFSU \u003ca href=\"https://commencement.sfsu.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">postponed graduation\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://news.sfsu.edu/announcements/university-suspends-face-face-classes-prepare-remote-instruction-and-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shifted classes online\u003c/a> on March 9, that excitement has drained. As a broadcast and communications arts major, most of his classes are almost impossible to do anymore, he said, since they normally would involve setting up video equipment and filming people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11808099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11808099\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/IMG_1941-copy-1-1020x818.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/IMG_1941-copy-1-1020x818.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/IMG_1941-copy-1-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/IMG_1941-copy-1-800x642.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/IMG_1941-copy-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron Borunda, a senior broadcast and communications arts major at San Francisco State University. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Aaron Borunda)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I know some people are kind of happy [about online classes],\" said Borunda, who is from Los Angeles. \"But for people that really want to learn and get their money's worth, I think we're all pretty pissed off right now.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he's considering asking the university for a refund. Some colleges around the country have already said they \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/to-fight-coronavirus-colleges-sent-students-home-now-will-they-refund-tuition-11584625536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">will not offer refunds\u003c/a>, according to the Wall Street Journal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borunda also said his plans to stay in the city after graduation are now in limbo. He had hoped to get a job as a sound tech after school but thinks it'll be difficult since many music venues are now shuttered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I could, I would love to stay in the Bay Area, but that's gonna [be] harder than ever,\" Borunda said. He may have to move back to his parent’s home now as employment opportunities dry up and bills start coming in. \"I'm gonna be one in a million people that are looking for jobs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student debt is also a concern. \"It's gonna be a struggle enough to figure out how I'm gonna pay rent, but paying rent on top of student loans,” said Borunda. \"I'm probably gonna have only a couple hundred dollars of spending money a month.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, the Department of Education \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/20/818977484/education-dept-makes-changes-to-standardized-tests-student-loans-over-coronaviru\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced several changes to federal student loan policy\u003c/a>, including that borrowers will have their interest rates set to zero percent for the next 60 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Corn, a senior who transferred from Moorpark College to UC Berkeley, said he's worked hard to get his political science degree and is disappointed he won’t be able to walk the stage during graduation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[We] wanted the celebration, this sense of closure, this moment to celebrate your accomplishments and make everyone proud, because we all know it's not just you, it's everyone who has helped you along the way,\" said Corn, who has temporarily moved back to be with his family in Los Angeles since Berkeley \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/03/09/as-coronavirus-spreads-uc-berkeley-suspends-in-person-instruction/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced classes were to shift online on March 10\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been an emotional roller coaster, to say the least,\" Corn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11808097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11808097 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/IMG_4789-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/IMG_4789-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/IMG_4789-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/IMG_4789-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/IMG_4789-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/IMG_4789.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon Corn, a senior political science major at UC Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jon Corn)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Corn, who deals with a physical disability, said Berkeley was the first place where he had successfully managed to live on his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[It] was an incredible challenge that I had successfully been able to overcome and manage very well,\" Corn said. \"So the fact that there is no graduation to really celebrate my incredible accomplishments definitely frustrates me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corn's plan was to move to Washington, D.C., for a job in politics after graduation but he doesn't know if that's going to happen anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No one knows,\" Corn said. \"I'm applying [to jobs]. I'm really trying to keep it as normal as possible, just applying and doing everything as I normally would.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11808038/what-its-like-to-graduate-college-during-a-pandemic","authors":["11647"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_18085","news_27350","news_20013","news_21749","news_27626","news_17597","news_631"],"featImg":"news_11808096","label":"news"},"news_11749908":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11749908","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11749908","score":null,"sort":[1558834406000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"hispanic-unemployment-has-hit-record-lows-but-does-that-mean-progress","title":"Hispanic Unemployment Has Hit Record Lows. But Does That Mean Progress?","publishDate":1558834406,"format":"standard","headTitle":"NPR | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>With the economy booming, Ernesto Martinez can barely keep up with all the construction work coming into the small drywall company he owns. He's part of a historic wave of Latino prosperity in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn't always like this. Martinez remembers when he was 17. He had $120 to his name, and it was all in his pocket. It's how much he got paid for his first job in the U.S., as a mover. He says he stood there, mesmerized, in front of a shop window at the mall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez was looking at a pair of Air Jordans. They cost around $100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I fell in love with them,\" he says. He didn't speak English, so he turned to his brother and said, \"Ask them to bring me a size 8.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What do you want those shoes for?\" his brother responded disapprovingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez says that's when he decided to learn English, so he could go back and get the shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11749987\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0016-edit_custom-fb887241fbd26f828cc6f573350b2f8d77985afe-s800-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11749987\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0016-edit_custom-fb887241fbd26f828cc6f573350b2f8d77985afe-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0016-edit_custom-fb887241fbd26f828cc6f573350b2f8d77985afe-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0016-edit_custom-fb887241fbd26f828cc6f573350b2f8d77985afe-s800-c85-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alondra, the daughter of Ernesto and Araceli, stands next to the Statue of Liberty in a family photo. \u003ccite>(Mohamed Sadek/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He had just arrived from Mexico. It was the 1990s, and cultural critics spoke of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.dctvny.org/events/latinexplosion\">\"Latin explosion\"\u003c/a>: Over the next two decades the Hispanic population would grow from 22.4 million people, to 50.5 million. But the numbers did not translate into power, or well-being: The 2000 census reported they had \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2001/demo/p60-214.html\">a poverty rate of 21.2%\u003c/a> — nearly double the overall U.S. rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez's wife, Araceli, had three cleaning jobs, but it was still hard to get by. She says the owners of one of the hotels where she worked made her do heavy lifting — such as moving furniture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was grueling, but she just couldn't afford to lose that job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the U.S. today, there are plenty of jobs. Unemployment for Latinos is at 4.2% — the lowest in recorded history. And their poverty rate has gone down somewhat, to 18.3%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/full-employment-lines-20190507?mode=childlink&utm_source=nprnews&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=storyredirect\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Don't see the graphic above? Click here.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Martinez family, things have improved dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a rainy Sunday afternoon, Araceli shows a reporter around her home in New Jersey. She and Ernesto were able to buy it in the early 2000s. It's beautiful, with an expansive backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it takes a lot of work to afford this place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11749988\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0014-edit_custom-7e6d315c8922b9a1a1b91ebb08912f2c02e29bb0-s800-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11749988\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0014-edit_custom-7e6d315c8922b9a1a1b91ebb08912f2c02e29bb0-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0014-edit_custom-7e6d315c8922b9a1a1b91ebb08912f2c02e29bb0-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0014-edit_custom-7e6d315c8922b9a1a1b91ebb08912f2c02e29bb0-s800-c85-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alondra (left) and her mother, Araceli, look through family photographs after a Sunday Mass and family lunch. Araceli has three jobs to provide for her family. \u003ccite>(Mohamed Sadek/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Araceli still has three jobs: house cleaner, supermarket cashier and assistant at a day care. Both she and Ernesto say their incomes have barely budged in the past decade. But the cost of living has gone up. \"Sometimes you have to have two or three jobs to make ends meet,\" Araceli says. \"Everything is expensive. Food, utilities, car insurance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, despite low unemployment numbers, economists urge caution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, joblessness is down, and that's great. But Hispanics earn about one-fourth less than white workers do. And for some \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewhispanic.org/2018/11/27/u-s-unauthorized-immigrant-total-dips-to-lowest-level-in-a-decade/\">7 million\u003c/a> Central American and Mexican immigrants who don't have legal status, it's even harder to move up. Being undocumented often leads to exploitation. It makes it harder to get an education. It forces people to work for low wages in the informal economy. It makes it difficult to start and build a company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/full-employment-lines-earnings-20190507?mode=childlink&utm_source=nprnews&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=storyredirect\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Don't see the graphic above? Click here.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is why, for all the talk about the Latin cultural explosion and unemployment going down, some academics and activists worry about the formation of \u003ca href=\"https://web.stanford.edu/group/scspi/media/_media/working_papers/massey_new-latino-underclass.pdf\">a permanent Hispanic underclass\u003c/a> in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11749991\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0010-edit_custom-ec7d19e8f9d8fd29fef65b7d1740a3d2aa4a29a7-s300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11749991\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0010-edit_custom-ec7d19e8f9d8fd29fef65b7d1740a3d2aa4a29a7-s300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0010-edit_custom-ec7d19e8f9d8fd29fef65b7d1740a3d2aa4a29a7-s300-c85.jpg 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0010-edit_custom-ec7d19e8f9d8fd29fef65b7d1740a3d2aa4a29a7-s300-c85-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Araceli sits in front of a photo of her daughter. Alondra is part of the record number of Hispanics enrolling in college. \u003ccite>(Mohamed Sadek/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Ernesto and Araceli say they see a really bright future. And it's because of their daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alondra is 22 years old. She's the eldest of the two Martinez kids. When they were born, Ernesto says, he had a clear vision: He didn't want to see them doing drywall. \"I want them to have a 9-to-5 job. I want them to be well-dressed and not dirty like we get dirty,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As soon as Alondra was born, Ernesto started saving for her to go to college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Alondra got older, she didn't see herself as the kind of person who goes into higher education. \"Growing up, I was very aware of the kind of family I came from. When you don't have lawyers and doctors and people with careers in your family, you think it's so far-fetched. And it's like, so much money,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A high school Spanish teacher spoke to her about New Jersey's Educational Opportunity Fund, the state's support program for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's how Alondra ended up going to Montclair State University. She's part of the record number of Hispanics going to college: Enrollment \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/09/29/hispanic-dropout-rate-hits-new-low-college-enrollment-at-new-high/\">nearly tripled\u003c/a> between 1999 and 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this years graduation ceremony for students in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nj.gov/highereducation/EOF/EOF_Description.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Educational Opportunity Fund program\u003c/a>, she gave a speech. Alondra was nervous at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11749989\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/msu-img_1037_custom-a020acd297c790b4d2f95c9fa7fcd0400f88182b-s800-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11749989\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/msu-img_1037_custom-a020acd297c790b4d2f95c9fa7fcd0400f88182b-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/msu-img_1037_custom-a020acd297c790b4d2f95c9fa7fcd0400f88182b-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/msu-img_1037_custom-a020acd297c790b4d2f95c9fa7fcd0400f88182b-s800-c85-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alondra (center) recently graduated from Montclair State University. She's part of the record number of Hispanics going to college: Enrollment nearly tripled between 1999 and 2016. \u003ccite>(Mohamed Sadek/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Being a first-generation college student means breaking every barrier, silencing every negative voice and pushing myself to be the woman I know I am meant to be,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she turned to her parents. \"Mamá, papá, lo logramos,\" she said. Mom, dad, we made it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This fall, Alondra will be going to Rutgers University to pursue a master's degree in college student affairs. She dreams of being a college dean someday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11749990\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0037-edit_custom-37d14bc71e1b11552ff79b9f777ebca53a4209b4-s800-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11749990\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0037-edit_custom-37d14bc71e1b11552ff79b9f777ebca53a4209b4-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0037-edit_custom-37d14bc71e1b11552ff79b9f777ebca53a4209b4-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0037-edit_custom-37d14bc71e1b11552ff79b9f777ebca53a4209b4-s800-c85-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alondra Martinez shows her father Ernesto the dress she picked out for her graduation party. The Martinez family is part of a historic wave of Latino prosperity in America. \u003ccite>(Mohamed Sadek/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ernesto marvels at this. This generation's goal is to be lawyers, engineers and architects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That is their dream,\" he says. \"And what was my dream?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 30 years ago, it was a pair of Air Jordans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Latino joblessness has dipped to historic lows. But many economists are taking those numbers with caution: There's still a gaping wage difference with white workers.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1558981626,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":35,"wordCount":1053},"headData":{"title":"Hispanic Unemployment Has Hit Record Lows. But Does That Mean Progress? | KQED","description":"Latino joblessness has dipped to historic lows. But many economists are taking those numbers with caution: There's still a gaping wage difference with white workers.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11749908 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11749908","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/05/25/hispanic-unemployment-has-hit-record-lows-but-does-that-mean-progress/","disqusTitle":"Hispanic Unemployment Has Hit Record Lows. But Does That Mean Progress?","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/25/725354469/hispanic-unemployment-has-hit-record-lows-but-does-that-mean-progress","nprByline":"\u003ca href= \"https://www.npr.org/people/297147616/jasmine-garsd\"> Jasmine Garsd \u003c/a>\u003cbr>NPR","nprImageAgency":"Mohamed Sadek for NPR","path":"/news/11749908/hispanic-unemployment-has-hit-record-lows-but-does-that-mean-progress","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With the economy booming, Ernesto Martinez can barely keep up with all the construction work coming into the small drywall company he owns. He's part of a historic wave of Latino prosperity in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn't always like this. Martinez remembers when he was 17. He had $120 to his name, and it was all in his pocket. It's how much he got paid for his first job in the U.S., as a mover. He says he stood there, mesmerized, in front of a shop window at the mall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez was looking at a pair of Air Jordans. They cost around $100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I fell in love with them,\" he says. He didn't speak English, so he turned to his brother and said, \"Ask them to bring me a size 8.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What do you want those shoes for?\" his brother responded disapprovingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez says that's when he decided to learn English, so he could go back and get the shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11749987\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0016-edit_custom-fb887241fbd26f828cc6f573350b2f8d77985afe-s800-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11749987\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0016-edit_custom-fb887241fbd26f828cc6f573350b2f8d77985afe-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0016-edit_custom-fb887241fbd26f828cc6f573350b2f8d77985afe-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0016-edit_custom-fb887241fbd26f828cc6f573350b2f8d77985afe-s800-c85-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alondra, the daughter of Ernesto and Araceli, stands next to the Statue of Liberty in a family photo. \u003ccite>(Mohamed Sadek/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He had just arrived from Mexico. It was the 1990s, and cultural critics spoke of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.dctvny.org/events/latinexplosion\">\"Latin explosion\"\u003c/a>: Over the next two decades the Hispanic population would grow from 22.4 million people, to 50.5 million. But the numbers did not translate into power, or well-being: The 2000 census reported they had \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2001/demo/p60-214.html\">a poverty rate of 21.2%\u003c/a> — nearly double the overall U.S. rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez's wife, Araceli, had three cleaning jobs, but it was still hard to get by. She says the owners of one of the hotels where she worked made her do heavy lifting — such as moving furniture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was grueling, but she just couldn't afford to lose that job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the U.S. today, there are plenty of jobs. Unemployment for Latinos is at 4.2% — the lowest in recorded history. And their poverty rate has gone down somewhat, to 18.3%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/full-employment-lines-20190507?mode=childlink&utm_source=nprnews&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=storyredirect\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Don't see the graphic above? Click here.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Martinez family, things have improved dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a rainy Sunday afternoon, Araceli shows a reporter around her home in New Jersey. She and Ernesto were able to buy it in the early 2000s. It's beautiful, with an expansive backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it takes a lot of work to afford this place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11749988\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0014-edit_custom-7e6d315c8922b9a1a1b91ebb08912f2c02e29bb0-s800-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11749988\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0014-edit_custom-7e6d315c8922b9a1a1b91ebb08912f2c02e29bb0-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0014-edit_custom-7e6d315c8922b9a1a1b91ebb08912f2c02e29bb0-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0014-edit_custom-7e6d315c8922b9a1a1b91ebb08912f2c02e29bb0-s800-c85-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alondra (left) and her mother, Araceli, look through family photographs after a Sunday Mass and family lunch. Araceli has three jobs to provide for her family. \u003ccite>(Mohamed Sadek/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Araceli still has three jobs: house cleaner, supermarket cashier and assistant at a day care. Both she and Ernesto say their incomes have barely budged in the past decade. But the cost of living has gone up. \"Sometimes you have to have two or three jobs to make ends meet,\" Araceli says. \"Everything is expensive. Food, utilities, car insurance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, despite low unemployment numbers, economists urge caution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, joblessness is down, and that's great. But Hispanics earn about one-fourth less than white workers do. And for some \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewhispanic.org/2018/11/27/u-s-unauthorized-immigrant-total-dips-to-lowest-level-in-a-decade/\">7 million\u003c/a> Central American and Mexican immigrants who don't have legal status, it's even harder to move up. Being undocumented often leads to exploitation. It makes it harder to get an education. It forces people to work for low wages in the informal economy. It makes it difficult to start and build a company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/full-employment-lines-earnings-20190507?mode=childlink&utm_source=nprnews&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=storyredirect\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Don't see the graphic above? Click here.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is why, for all the talk about the Latin cultural explosion and unemployment going down, some academics and activists worry about the formation of \u003ca href=\"https://web.stanford.edu/group/scspi/media/_media/working_papers/massey_new-latino-underclass.pdf\">a permanent Hispanic underclass\u003c/a> in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11749991\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0010-edit_custom-ec7d19e8f9d8fd29fef65b7d1740a3d2aa4a29a7-s300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11749991\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0010-edit_custom-ec7d19e8f9d8fd29fef65b7d1740a3d2aa4a29a7-s300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0010-edit_custom-ec7d19e8f9d8fd29fef65b7d1740a3d2aa4a29a7-s300-c85.jpg 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0010-edit_custom-ec7d19e8f9d8fd29fef65b7d1740a3d2aa4a29a7-s300-c85-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Araceli sits in front of a photo of her daughter. Alondra is part of the record number of Hispanics enrolling in college. \u003ccite>(Mohamed Sadek/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Ernesto and Araceli say they see a really bright future. And it's because of their daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alondra is 22 years old. She's the eldest of the two Martinez kids. When they were born, Ernesto says, he had a clear vision: He didn't want to see them doing drywall. \"I want them to have a 9-to-5 job. I want them to be well-dressed and not dirty like we get dirty,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As soon as Alondra was born, Ernesto started saving for her to go to college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Alondra got older, she didn't see herself as the kind of person who goes into higher education. \"Growing up, I was very aware of the kind of family I came from. When you don't have lawyers and doctors and people with careers in your family, you think it's so far-fetched. And it's like, so much money,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A high school Spanish teacher spoke to her about New Jersey's Educational Opportunity Fund, the state's support program for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's how Alondra ended up going to Montclair State University. She's part of the record number of Hispanics going to college: Enrollment \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/09/29/hispanic-dropout-rate-hits-new-low-college-enrollment-at-new-high/\">nearly tripled\u003c/a> between 1999 and 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this years graduation ceremony for students in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nj.gov/highereducation/EOF/EOF_Description.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Educational Opportunity Fund program\u003c/a>, she gave a speech. Alondra was nervous at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11749989\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/msu-img_1037_custom-a020acd297c790b4d2f95c9fa7fcd0400f88182b-s800-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11749989\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/msu-img_1037_custom-a020acd297c790b4d2f95c9fa7fcd0400f88182b-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/msu-img_1037_custom-a020acd297c790b4d2f95c9fa7fcd0400f88182b-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/msu-img_1037_custom-a020acd297c790b4d2f95c9fa7fcd0400f88182b-s800-c85-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alondra (center) recently graduated from Montclair State University. She's part of the record number of Hispanics going to college: Enrollment nearly tripled between 1999 and 2016. \u003ccite>(Mohamed Sadek/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Being a first-generation college student means breaking every barrier, silencing every negative voice and pushing myself to be the woman I know I am meant to be,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she turned to her parents. \"Mamá, papá, lo logramos,\" she said. Mom, dad, we made it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This fall, Alondra will be going to Rutgers University to pursue a master's degree in college student affairs. She dreams of being a college dean someday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11749990\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0037-edit_custom-37d14bc71e1b11552ff79b9f777ebca53a4209b4-s800-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11749990\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0037-edit_custom-37d14bc71e1b11552ff79b9f777ebca53a4209b4-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0037-edit_custom-37d14bc71e1b11552ff79b9f777ebca53a4209b4-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ms_npr_alondra_0037-edit_custom-37d14bc71e1b11552ff79b9f777ebca53a4209b4-s800-c85-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alondra Martinez shows her father Ernesto the dress she picked out for her graduation party. The Martinez family is part of a historic wave of Latino prosperity in America. \u003ccite>(Mohamed Sadek/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ernesto marvels at this. This generation's goal is to be lawyers, engineers and architects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That is their dream,\" he says. \"And what was my dream?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 30 years ago, it was a pair of Air Jordans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11749908/hispanic-unemployment-has-hit-record-lows-but-does-that-mean-progress","authors":["byline_news_11749908"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8"],"tags":["news_20575","news_21749","news_20605","news_2403","news_631"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11749909","label":"source_news_11749908"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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