Louisville Urban League Lifts Residents Fighting Poverty, Unemployment

There is a lot of pressure on families that were already struggling financially before the novel coronavirus began spreading rapidly.

The Louisville Urban League  (Louisville, KY) wants the community to consider donating to help some of the local residents that barely had enough money to provide food and other essentials for their families before they were recently laid off.

Sadiqa Reynolds, CEO of Louisville Urban League, told WLKY News that the organization is still operating all of its classes and services.

“We're doing it at a distance,” Reynold said. “We are having people call us, we're using mobile devices a lot, we're teaching classes online.”

Tax preparation services have been postponed to at least April 4.

The online services, like job readiness classes, at the urban league are seemingly proving their worth for people surprised to learn their employer laid them off.

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