FILE PHOTO: Raul Gonzalez, Jr., 53 stacks chairs at his Mambos Cuban restaurant, which is being forced to close after 32 years, due to the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Glendale, California, U.S., March 18, 2020. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Across the United States, thousands of waiters, cooks, hotel staff, actors, bartenders and workers in other sectors have suddenly found themselves unemployed as the coronavirus pandemic has scythed through the world's biggest economy.
This abrupt reversal of fortune for the economic victims of the virus happened almost overnight, turning lives upside down as their places of work shuttered or reduced staffing. Dreams of the future have been replaced by worries about the present: "How do I pay my rent" or "How do I pay for food?"
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