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Understand that most of the folks featured in this article would be counted as *not poor* in those rosy poverty estimates we& #39;ve seen. Our weird US poverty measure is not the right way to assess economic insecurity in the pandemic 1/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/coronavirus-unemployment-delays-dc/2020/08/01/50016264-c522-11ea-8ffe-372be8d82298_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_benefitsdelayed748pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans">https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/cor...
Delayed unemployment payments create large problems for people living on low-incomes. They have little room to breathe. So they may lose housing before their large lump sum payment comes in 2/
And we see in other data the consequence of these policy and administrative failures. Food insecurity remains at all time highs, greater than the Great Recession. 3/ https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/07/09/about-14-million-children-in-the-us-are-not-getting-enough-to-eat/">https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-f...
The pandemic EBT (for kids) can dramatically reduce food insecurity, but large fractions of children aren& #39;t receiving it. Case: Tennessee is returning $60 million in EBT funds because they required applications and didn& #39;t tell families they& #39;re eligible 4/ https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/30/tennessee-may-forfeit-60-m-pandemic-ebt-funds-applications-stall/5535427002/">https://www.tennessean.com/story/new...
We& #39;re also now staring down what will be a huge income cliff because they didn& #39;t extend UI benefits. Even if they do it soon, there will be a huge lag in receipt, during a period when rent (including back payments) is coming due 5/ https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/30/the-600-unemployment-boost-is-almost-over-for-some-their-aid-will-fall-93-percent.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/3...
