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Divided economy We’re doing everything we can do to scrape by : COVID-19 put some families on the edge while the wealthy thrive
COVID-19 widened the economic dividing line between families doing well, and those who are struggling.
Mark Williams, The Columbus Dispatch
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10:59 am UTC May. 26, 2021
COVID-19 widened the economic dividing line between families doing well, and those who are struggling.
Mark Williams, The Columbus Dispatch
Published
10:59 am UTC May. 26, 2021
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The economic chasm between families who are struggling and those who aren t is just getting bigger.
Blame the pandemic, which put millions of people nationally and hundreds of thousands in Ohio out of work, unable to make mortgage or rent payments, and grappling with how to put food on the table and keep the lights on. Millions of people remain hesitant to return to work out of fear of becoming sick or making someone else at home s