Pittsburgh Group Helps Restaurant Workers Navigate Unemployment During Pandemic

By Amy Wadas, CBS Pittsburgh

January 27, 2021

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Restaurant workers have been struggling since the pandemic began last March. So many of them are relying on unemployment as they wait to go back to work. However, the system hasn’t been smooth. The local group Pittsburgh Restaurant Workers Aid is doing what it can to help.

“Unemployment has been the number one issue on people’s minds. How to pay bills and rent,” said Co-founder of Pittsburgh Restaurant Workers Aid Taylor Stessney.

Stessney is a former restaurant worker herself. She worked as a bartender at Eleven in the Strip District but was furloughed in March when the pandemic began. However, she was one of the lucky ones who found another job not long after.

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