Topic: [The Guardian] Coronavirus: a financial emergency that turns treading water into drowning (Read 619 times)

« **on:** March 30, 2020, 01:07:42 PM »

Coronavirus: a financial emergency that turns treading water into drowning

Things were looking up for our family, with a new job and a big move. Then coronavirus turned our lives upside down

My husband got a new job a few weeks ago. We moved back to the city from upstate, borrowing money from his mother to put down our security deposit. Great news, life-changing, it was supposed to be.

For years, we’ve been looking for a leg up; we’ve been broke and barely getting by. I’ve been working between four and six jobs at a time, and my husband had been working toward something more stable and with benefits for years. His new job will provide health insurance in three months. His commute will be 20-30 minutes instead of an hour and a half. We sunk what little money we had into moving, contingent on that new salary, contingent on me continuing to work all four jobs I’ve been working the past couple years, and prepared for our new, more comfortable life.

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[The Guardian] Coronavirus: a financial emergency that turns treading water into drowning

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