Out of a job? Can't pay your bills? These proposals may help keep you afloat amid coronavirus [calmatters.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 3/19/2011:17 AM

By Jackie Botts, Cal Matters, March 18, 2020

Donna Insalaco had to lay off 40 of the 45 employees at Pizzaiolo, her gourmet pizzeria in downtown Oakland, after sales fell through a “black hole.”

“A lot of tears,” Insalaco said, “All of us here live check-to-check.”

Responding to a statewide call for restaurants to close their doors to dine-in customers, Pizzaiolo is now only offering pick-up and delivery.

“We hope that we can limp by enough to stay open and call our staff back,” Insaleco said.

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