Ballad of the Oregon Employment Department
Channel: David Rovics
Date: 2020-07-08

On the last OPB report I heard, they said out of Oregon's 400,000 newly unemployed, 100,000 are gig economy workers like me.  Of those 100,000, only 30,000 have so far gotten responses -- including rejections, such as the one I received in June, two months after I first applied.  Since then, every time I call the special PUA number they set up, it is always busy.  The sound of a failed state.