It’s going on another month. The coronavirus pandemic continues. And Americans suffering amid the economic consequences will have to worry again once their upcoming hiring checks expire on August 1.
Many unemployed due to the crisis are already receiving payments. And the arrival of August brings new concerns. An additional $600 in weekly federal unemployment benefits that has helped many others pay for their spending will expire in late July, with Congress meddled in a war of words about a new aid set.
Unless lawmakers also intervene, a federal moratorium on evictions has protected millions of tenants; some Americans remain protected through similar state and local actions.
The Associated Press reconnected with tenants interviewed for the first time before their April payments. Four months later, some returned to work. One of them saw his church interfere to cover his rent. Some have discovered homeowners willing to negotiate, while others are still seeking relief.
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Sakai Harrison moved to New York to consult a non-public teacher and designer; However, his gym closed its doors at the beginning of the pandemic, and after weeks of suffering to pay rent and put food in his refrigerator, he knew what he wanted. I had to do. Do.
He returned to Georgia for stability.
In May, he left his Brooklyn apartment and his $1,595 monthly rent for Atlanta. When the first of the month arrives, your new seat costs about $400 less, and is larger.
“It’s the greatest ray of hope I’ve ever seen, ” he said.
He trains with some individual clients and has an educational camp with a dozen others.
This week he met four of them in a park, where they did squats, pull-ups and a military-style ramp. Harrison then took them to a gym to work out with dumbbells. They were not dressed in a mask to oppose viruses; Harrison said they were taking precautions, but under the pressure that the state didn’t need to cover his face.
Harrison modeled the right shape and pace, corrected the men as needed, and gently joked when they got tired or slowed down. Some beards leaned back and Harrison smiled.
It costs a little less for consumers than at Blink Fitness in New York, however, this amount is helping him expand a clothing brand. Take a line of shoes, T-shirts and caps.
Except to stop, Harrison said, “I’m fine.”
– Aaron Morrison, New York and Ron Harris, Atlanta
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Demanding financial situations continue to accumulate for Roushaunda Williams months after wasting her nearly 20-year task at the bar at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel in downtown Chicago.
Possible hotel reopening dates have been delayed, Williams said, and jobs in the hotel sector remain short.” He hopes he will not be able to pay his hiring of $1,900 until September, especially if Congress reauthorizes the $600 weekly in additional unemployment assistance under a new aid program.
Williams, 52, said he asked the control company that owns his apartment for rent relief or other help. So far, you’ve been told your rent would be charged if you could pay.
The governor of Illinois recently prolonged a moratorium on deportations until August. However, Williams is concerned about the accumulation of debt while unemployed.
“I’ve exhausted my savings,” he says. “So now I don’t have a safety net.”
– Kathleen Foody, Chicago
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Jas Wheeler once hoped to weather the pandemic and repaint in a Vermont bakery. Not anymore.
Wheeler, 30, is immunocompromised and fear of returning to the bakery would increase the threat of infection. The former social worker who works in a small grocery store who will pay less but leaves more room for social estrangement.
Wheeler attended the concert, anticipating wasting weekly aid on unemployment at $600. This cash allowed Wheeler and his wife, Lucy, to repay their $850 monthly loan.
The couple closed their home in Vergennes the same day Wheeler fired in March. Wheeler’s wife has kept her job, but the money is still tight. They sold a car and grew food.
“Unemployment without staggered benefits is enough to live on,” Wheeler said. “We’re broke.”
– Michael Casey, Boston
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Although the pandemic took away both of Itza Sanchez’s income, his faith. The mother-of-two says the generosity of her church in Richmond, Virginia, saved them from hunger and eviction.
Sanchez fell under contract when she stopped promoting homemade tamales and collecting junk for fear of contracting the virus. In mid-July, it owed about $950 in non-paid rent. It was at this point that Sanchez won the account of leaving the cell home where his circle of relatives lives.
She forgave when her church sent $800 directly to the owner.
Now you will raise $460 for the August rental. Receives donations of food from the church. The school formula offers lunches to your 11- and 7-year-olds.
An immigrant from Honduras, Sanchez is entitled to unemployment benefits.
“In this crisis, we have moments of anguish and hopelessness,” Sanchez said.
“But so far I’ve been blessed.”
– Regina García Cano, Washington
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For Andrea Larson, life has taken an unforeseen turn.
He lost his job as a sommelier in mid-March, when the places to eat in Nashville, Tennessee closed. She simply deals with unemployment, but is concerned about wasting her profits or returning to a damaging task in the business of places to eat.
Then a former boss presented him with a position in a new position to eat: the White Limozeen, named for a Dolly Parton song and an exaggerated kitsch.
While Larson is still afraid of the virus, he appreciates that his employer “has spent a lot of cash to make sure other people are incredibly safe.”
In her duplex, a plumbing crisis forced her to live in a structure area for a few months. But he counts it as luck: he didn’t have to pay the rent.
– Travis Loller, Nashville, Tennessee
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Jade Brooks and her circle of relatives have relied on a moratorium on evictions in Massachusetts to help them through the pandemic. Still, 22-year-old Brooks worries: how long will it last?
Brooks’ mother discovered a full-time task since she wasted her homework at the insurance company. And Brooks is paid enough as a hospital standardizer to cover the rent, recently raised at $2075 a month, for his two-bedroom apartment in Boston.
His circle of relatives had a deportation hearing scheduled for August in court after refusing to pay the $265 increase. The governor then extended the deportation ban until mid-October, offering relief from transitoryness.
“It gave me a little more hope of perceiving things, of throwing myself into the fire,” said Brooks, who lives with his mom and an 8-year-old cousin.
Brooks expects the extra time to give his mother the chance to find work, and they may cancel a new lease instead of going to court.
– Michael Casey, Boston
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After two months of missing bills due to a “rental strike,” Neal Miller and his roommates listened to the landlord.
To his surprise, he agreed to reduce the monthly rent by $1,500 for his home on Chicago’s West Side. Miller’s percentage is now $150, compared to $400.
Miller, 38, said his landlord had given the impression that he would prefer a source of income for the house to nothing at all.
Miller’s last solid assignment was as an adjunct professor at Loyola University. During the pandemic, he repaired tasks: drafting thesis, accounting for a psychiatrist’s office.
Lowering rents lowered the pressure: “We are in an exclusive scenario because of the reaction we have received.”
– Kathleen Foody, Chicago
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Tnia Morgan’s circle of relatives has grown through a unit since the pandemic turned their lives around. The birth of a grandson, the youngest son of his youngest daughter, on June 25 was a rare and, in a different way, stressful spring and summer.
“I love its smell. I love his smile. I love everything about him,” said Morgan, who sells a house in Baltimore County, Maryland, with his newborn grandson, daughter, and nephew.
I needed something to celebrate. His source of income fell after wasting his homework in the hotel’s reception room in March. Invoices accrue every month.
Since then, 4 rental checks have been owed. Morgan’s owner pays him what he can. She estimates that this is almost part of what she owes since April.
Food vouchers feed his family. She says she tried unsuccessfully to enroll in unemployment benefits. His only source of income comes from his paintings for a food delivery service.
“It’s not much,” he says, “but it’s bigger than having nothing.”
– Michael Kunzelman, Silver Spring, Maryland
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Ruqayyah Bailey has lost much of his independence and has re-inlaid his life.
Bailey, 31, is autistic. Until March, she lived in her apartment, worked part-time as a cashier at a St. Louis café and attended college.
The coronavirus threw this total design through the window. Bailey may no longer gain advantages from the individual tutoring that helped her thrive in college. The coffee’s closed. Without money, he moved back in with his mother.
The café reopened in June, but Bailey only works four hours a week. You have enrolled in seven hours of college categories, but are not sure about tutoring. She uses her savings to pay for her expenses and fears losing her additional $600 during the week.
“I’m absolutely stressed, ” said Bailey. “I don’t know how to pay my bills. I don’t know how I’m going to get into my apartment.”
– Jim Salter, St. Louis
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Jason W. Still spent nearly 3 months unpainted before re-cooking at an upscale restaurant in Spokane, Washington.
However, he returned to Clover’s kitchen when he reopened in early June. Before that, his wife’s paintings in the legal marijuana industry in Washington and Still’s unemployment checks helped them never lose a rent payment.
Encore repaints 40 hours a week. But you wonder if this will last, as COVID-19 infections accumulate in the United States.
“It’s scary for me to be in a service industry that can close at any time,” he said.
– Anita Snow, Phoenix
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Tinisha Dixon raised cash to cover her monthly rent of $1,115 for April and May. Since then, he hasn’t been able to pay.
Dixon, 26, stores an apartment in downtown Atlanta with his wife and five children. Before that, Dixon homeless. Today, he worries each and every day that his circle of relatives is on the streets.
Dixon’s spouse works as a security guard, but the hour-reduction has reduced his income stream to about $800 a month. Dixon said he ran briefly at a coronavirus control site outside the city gates, but that relying on his spouse for rides interfered with his job.
Before the pandemic, Dixon said, their owner had begun to take steps to evict them.
“I’m pretty beat up looking to locate everything, knowing how long I can hang here,” he said.
– Sudhin Thanawala, Atlanta
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Eli Oderberg of Denver is still unemployed. He lost his job at a Colorado energy company in a wave of layoffs in mid-April caused by the economic consequences of the pandemic.
Oderberg, 36, has worked in the past on programs to track spills and leaks. He now receives unemployment benefits because he sends resumes and interviews for new jobs. He said he was a finalist for several positions but had not been hired.
Oderberg and his wife, Katie, made their loan payments. It is unemployed after wasting its work in the retail sector. She is also pregnant and the couple fears she will run out when the baby arrives. They also have a 5-year-old daughter.
“I’m looking to have a smart balance to power my family,” he said. “And I’m reminding myself that there are a lot of other people in a much worse situation.”
– Anita Snow, Phoenix