Advocates say things will worsen when federal assistance expires in July.
"It won't be long until the system is overrun," April Verrett, president of SEIU 2015, which represents over 400,000 workers in California, told ABC News. "We're running out of time."For Fernanda Carley, the staffing shortages aren't just an abstract number.
But the pandemic tested that calling -- and recent months have only pushed Carley further toward the brink. As spring turns to summer, her electricity bill is way up, and gas is costing her upwards of $150 per week. To pay her bills, she's had to pick up side hustles washing cars. "I've been doing a lot of life contemplating," she told ABC News. In the coming months, she plans to leave her job and return to nursing school.But, she said,"at this point, I don't see the end of the pandemic or the inflation -- and I don't think either helps the situation. I don't know when people would be willing to work in this industry anymore.
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