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Disney World layoffs leave its workers fighting to hold onto vanishing middle-class lives

By Greg Jaffe · The Washington Post · December 2020
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Disney World layoffs leave its workers fighting to hold onto vanishing middle-class lives
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"The once famously long lines at Disney World remained short even as Orlando’s free food lines, packed with laid-off hotel and theme park workers, grew longer. All the while Flaviana Decker's unemployment checks shrank from more than $800 a week in July to less than $245 a week in October, which didn’t even cover her rent."

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