By JESSICA MENTON | USA Today (Tribune News Service) | Published: March 17, 2021
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The coronavirus pandemic taught Marlon Watkins a valuable lesson about his stimulus money: invest for the future.
After Watkins, 24, was laid off last spring when the pandemic closed restaurants across the country, he was determined to put his second and third stimulus checks toward investing once he got back on his feet.
"While unemployed, I realized I wasn't set up for success," says Watkins, an Army veteran who lives in Fresno County, California.