Credit: GoToVan https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Hundreds of thousands of Americans have suffered “deaths of despair” from alcohol and drug abuse and suicides because they could no longer provide for their families. Even before the COVID-19 crisis, during a post-recession period when the economy and stock market were booming, the poorest 50% of Americans lost wealth . And now many of them have lost their jobs, their income, their livelihoods.
40%: The Percentage of Lost Jobs that May Be Lost for Good
Anywhere from half to three-quarters of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck .Now the paychecks are disappearing. Tens of millions of Americans […]
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