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Who CARES? Unemployed CWU students assisted by the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act Story by Peighton Bortle | Contributions by Joseph Stanger Design by Itzel Montoya | Edited by David Snyder Brooke Sandoval didn’t know she would be ripped away from the place she called home for the last four years. In the midst of finals week, the start of a global pandemic, and the abrupt end of her senior year, she had to leave without properly saying goodbye. “I knew everything going on was serious, but I didn’t think it was going to be this bad,” she says. Sandoval is a senior Biology major at CWU, specializing in Biomedicine. She is one of many that lost her job because of COVID-19 and was left with no choice but to rely on unemployment. “I remember my first year was crazy, but I wasn’t even dealing with a pandemic then,” she says. “I was telling my dad at the time I didn’t know how I did it because they were the hardest quarters of my life.”
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