The $5,500 arrived in the middle of August with no strings attached. For Zabria Proctor, it was a godsend. The rent was due. The car loan and insurance needed paying. Bills were piling up. The fridge was often close to bare.
The pandemic had cost Proctor her job as a bus driver for special- needs children in Prince George’s County. Her husband’s work as a car detailer dried up quickly. What little money they had saved soon evaporated as well.
Like millions of low-income American families, the couple were brought to the brink by the economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus […]
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