New York Times Re-write: August 9, 2020: Buy Food or Keep Car
The following blog was taken directly from the Sunday New York Times, August 9, 2020 by Ben Casselman and Gillian Friedman. I was looking for something to write about this week and when I read this I said wow! this is perfect as to how I AM FEELING. We are all at the end of our ropes. We are all beginning to make choices that we never imagined we would have to. $600 Dries Up, And Decisions Are Wrenching Buy Food or Keep Car? Consequences Spiral Latrish Oseko and her daughter When Latrish Oseko lost her job last spring, government aid helped to prevent a crisis from becoming a catastrophe. A $1,700 federal stimulus payment meant that when her 26-year old car broke down, she could replace it. The $600 a week in extra unemployment benefits from the federal government allowed her to pay rent and buy food. But the federal money has run out, and talks in Washington over how to replace it have broken down. Ms. Oseko is sitting in a Delaware motel room where she's been since her landlord k...