An out-of-work travel agent whose mortgage payments were deferred now worries about losing her house. A couple can’t pay myriad bills after the $600 unemployment bonus ran out. An idled maintenance supervisor has fallen further behind on rent.
USA TODAY recently checked back in with some of the dozens of Americans who spoke to us earlier this year after losing jobs because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and found that many have edged closer to financial calamity.
Much has changed since we began chronicling their stories. States have been reopening their economies in phases, and the federal government sent most Americans $1,200 stimulus checks to help keep them afloat.
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