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Restaurant Workers Are Struggling Without Elusive, Long-Promised Unemployment Checks

Monica Greer spends her days calling Michigan’s unemployment hotline. It’s been more than a month since she was originally laid off from her position as pastry chef at Leila, a splashy new Lebanese restaurant and bar in downtown Detroit, and she’s yet to receive a check from the state. Nearly every day since filing for unemployment, Greer has called that state agency no less than 50 times in an attempt to resolve the issues on her account. One day, she