The unemployment in New York City’s restaurant industry has remained devastatingly high. Photo: Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images One year ago, Grace — a professional cook from New York — was working a dream job at Osteria Francescana, the acclaimed fine-dining destination in Modena, Italy. It had taken three years of work, she says, to achieve the goal, but halfway through her stay, Italy became the epicenter of Europe’s COVID-19 outbreak.
In November, as COVID cases started surging in New York City once again, the unemployment rate rose to 39.8 percent. December’s indoor-dining shutdown shot that number back up to 43.4 percent. As people like Clifton found out they were freshly out of work , they nervously watched Congress fight over the second relief package that included the $600 stimulus check and $300 a week in enhanced employment benefits. “It was a little scary a few weeks ago when the Senate was waffling on shit based on Trump being a psychopath,” Clifton says. “It was just like, Oh, great. I’m just losing money rapidly.
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