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Florida’s unemployment office has gotten rid of all of the call centers it brought on in 2020 — a decision that critics said is premature, as thousands of claims continue to pour in and applicants still struggle to get through the state’s antiquated CONNECT website.
Thousands of residents are still filing jobless claims and struggling to use the CONNECT website, but the state has recently ended its contract with the company that was providing 2,000 reps for the call centers.
Central Florida organization helps visually impaired people obtain jobs; local man shares his journey © WESH WESH One Central Florida man says, "don't let any limitation stand in your way." He's blind but has been working on a government contract for the past four years.Sign up for our Newsletters WESH 2 News looked into the organization that helps others help themselves. Angel Lopez, 50, has been blind for more than half his life. "I am totally blind. I don't have eyes, I had an accident 25, 27 years ago," said Lopez, a supply chain fulfillment specialist. Yet, he's been processing thous...
Gabriela Garcia: On Writing the Character's Arc Debut author Gabriela Garcia discusses how she established goals for her novel Of Women and Salt, how she let her characters dictate their stories, and what it's like to write a cast of dynamic women. Author: Gabriela Garcia is the author of the novel Of Women and Salt, forthcoming from Flatiron (US), Picador (UK), and in seven other languages. Her fiction and poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, The Cincinnati Review, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, a Steinbeck Fellowship, ...