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NCJ Preview with Access Humboldt

This week: We’re talking about a photographer taking portraits of people from outside their homes during shelter in place in Blue Lake and the new mask ordinance in Humboldt County. Also, Instacart is gaining popularity under quarantine but it’s lagging on getting protective gear to its workers. We’ll tell you how one gig worker is […]

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Shopping for Strangers on Instacart, Relying on Friends

Rachael Trump started delivering for Instacart in early February, when the U.S. was counting its first confirmed COVID-19 cases and weeks before Humboldt County and the state of California instituted shelter-in-place orders. “I had been looking for several months for something,” Trump says. She needed to supplement her income with something flexible that would fit […]

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