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David Siegel’s Westgate timeshare company wanted to use government aid to promote its resorts, email shows

David Siegel’s Westgate timeshare company wanted to use government aid to promote its resorts, email shows

The email, promising the recipient “THIS IS NOT A JOKE OR A SCAM,” said, “We have federal money available to us at our company, to hire temporary employees.” Asked this week about the offer by the Sentinel, a senior Westgate executive said the company has not used any of the federal money to temporarily hire outside travel writers.

Report shows workers suffering before coronavirus shut down economy

Report shows workers suffering before coronavirus shut down economy

Even before the coronavirus pandemic sparked an economic implosion, some 350,000 Central Florida working households — and a third of those statewide — were barely able to make ends meet, a new United Way report finds. And that doesn’t include the roughly 13 percent of households that were living in poverty.