Today’s protest is against unemployment. Residents who are offered their old jobs back simply may not accept them, choosing instead to continue tapping into the generous unemployment aid. The $2 trillion congressional coronavirus relief signed by President Trump in March greatly added to weekly benefit checks for out-of-work Americans and some people may be earning more than they did previously. The court wrote me a letter saying, “Thank you for your check.” I got a letter with the other checks too.
My entire stimulus check instantly went back to pay for child support. I didn’t receive a % of it. I can’t get no food or nothing. I had to go to the food bank for two boxes of food.
I was in arrears, so I owed a substantial amount. So I went to Al Sharpton’s march on Washington to sell my papers!
Henry Johnson is an artist and vendor with Street Sense Media.