From Fortune: Coronavirus relief funds should be used to pay for workers, not bail out corporations
EDITOR'S NOTE: Nelson was a featured speaker at last year's biennial Kentucky State AFL-CIO convention in Lexington.
By KATIE PORTER AND SARA NELSON
Have you ever had to file for government assistance? Are you facing that question right now for the first time in your life?
Millions of American workers now find themselves wading through piles of unemployment forms, listening for hours to jarring hold music to get a question answered, and reloading websites that are crashing under unprecedented demand.
About 157 million Americans got health insurance through their jobs in 2018, and as those jobs disappear, workers confront sky-high COBRA premiums or an impossible puzzle of Medicaid eligibility.