Tag: COVID-19
A frequent question from the press is how the COVID-19 pandemic will affect Social Security finances. (This topic was not covered in the Trustees Report released last week, as the report was prepared before the pandemic). Of course, no one knows the answer, because no one knows how long it will take to get t…
A growing number of Americans can’t pay their rent, and the queues forming outside food banks hint at human need on the scale of the Depression. For Americans who were already living paycheck to paycheck prior to the pandemic, the $1,200 relief checks the government has deposited into their bank accounts are too little and…
