The shutdown of restaurants and bars in many states will have a huge impact on workers — 500,000 in Ohio alone. 'I’m a career bartender. I’m a cash girl, I don’t have a 401k, and all kinds of back up that people who do normal jobs have.” (WOSUnews)
DeWine acknowledged these steps are going to be hard for restaurant and bar workers.
According to the Ohio Restaurant Association, the industry employed more than 500,000 people last year—10% of the state’s workforce. “How to pay rent, how to feed myself, how to do all of those things,” Dublin said."I’m a career bartender. I’m a cash girl, I don’t have a 401k, and all kinds of back up that people who do normal jobs have.”
“We’re torn, right?” Luke says. “We’re small business owners that our livelihood just got stripped out of our hands, but again, to slow the spread of this thing, no one knows what it could be.”
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