Trump is set to speak in Anaheim on Friday for the GOP convention and the event is met with resistance from local Democrats, who are planning a lively protest under the theme of the classic board game Monopoly, complete with signs and costumes.
Chavez has a master’s degree but
told News 8 in late June he just couldn’t find work since he was laid off during the coronavirus pandemic.
Chavez is in the middle of training at his new job as a customer associate at the UPS Store.
“It feels amazing man,” Chavez said. “You reached out to me and let me know, and here I am.”
News 8 first met up with Chavez in June, then several more times as the saga in Indiana continued. That saga includes when
“We’re just left in the dark. Frustrated, scared,” Chavez said at the time.
Jun 29, 2021 / 10:31 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) The clock is ticking for hundreds of thousands of out-of-work Hoosiers who are still waiting on a judge’s ruling to return expanded benefits to their bank accounts.
About 230,000 Indiana residents are receiving unemployment benefits, according to The Century Foundation. Some 177,000 have been left without any jobless payments, and the rest lost the $300 federal weekly boost.
Giovanni Chavez and others in the same predicament are worried, especially because the first of the month and the due date for a rent payment is a day away.
Chavez first went to file his voucher early Sunday morning, but when he went to the website and logged in there was nothing there to file.