‘I can’t get a single present’: millions in US barely scraping by amid holidays

As of November, 15.6 million workers in the US are still affected by the pandemic’s economic downturn

Santa embraces a child at an event for the Grace Food Pantry in Everett, Massachusetts, in December 2020.
Santa embraces a child at an event for the Grace Food Pantry in Everett, Massachusetts, in December 2020. Photograph: Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images

Michael Sainato

For millions of Americans, the Covid-19 pandemic has left them and their families with little money or cause for celebrating the holidays this year.

“My youngest turns six on Christmas day and I can’t even get her a single present,” said Amanda Starr of Lebanon, Ohio, a single mother of three who has struggled to find work after her car was repossessed when she missed payments due to losing her retail job in the beginning of the pandemic.

Starr was one of millions of workers out of work who lost unemployment benefits when federal extended and pandemic unemployment benefits ended in September. She is spending the holidays currently worrying about her family facing eviction soon and has experienced issues in receiving federal childcare tax credit payments…....More Here

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