OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. – When Jamie Lynn Austera was finally accepted into the Osceola County school district’s education program as a substitute teacher last December she thought her financial stress was over, the coronavirus pandemic changed that. “It’s heartbreaking,” Austera said.
Without a Florida teaching certificate, the Maryland transplant is not allowed to handle distance learning programs so her only alternative is unemployment benefits which she said has been a dead end. “I can’t get through unemployment (website) I just keep trying and trying, she told News 6, “I even applied for food stamps, Medicaid, temporary cash, everything.” Austera is the latest unemployed single mom faced with a dwindling bank account and no help from the
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