"A nonprofit that provides financial assistance and resources to food-service workers is seeing a sharp surge in need in Atlanta, with average requests for aid in December far outpacing 2020 and the rest of 2021; women in the industry are about twice as likely to request help, and executive director Bryan Schroeder warns that there is effectively no safety net left (no new PPP-like support), underscoring the precarious economic situation facing cooks and front-of-house staff amid repeated pandemic closures." - Elazar Sontag