‘A very dark feeling’: Hundreds camp out in Oklahoma unemployment lines
By Annie Gowen
July 20, 2020 at 6:20 p.m. EDT
TULSA — John Jolley never thought he'd be sleeping in his car awaiting unemployment benefits. But there he was, the owner of a once-successful advertising agency, taking a sweaty nap in a Subaru wagon in a convention center parking lot at 1:45 a.m. on a Wednesday.
The pandemic sent his business into a free fall, and now Jolley wanted to be first in line for an unemployment claims event beginning in five hours. He barely dozed, afraid that if he fell into a deep sleep, he would miss the early-morning handout of tickets for appointments with state agents.
There would be just 400 tickets handed out for that day’s event. When those ran out, there would be 400 more for appointments the following day.
“I just didn’t want to be number 803,” Jolley said.
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