Missing one day of work, even just a few hours, destroys my budget.
Quote icon If he’s home, I’m home, she says with a shrug. It s routine by now: If one of the boys is sick, there are few options for backup care. Her twins were born 11 weeks early with respiratory problems, and they have compromised immune systems. It destroys my day, Amanda says, once again looking at her phone calculator. Missing one day of work, even just a few hours, destroys my budget. I can’t save for unexpected expenses, so when things come up, all I can do is hope and pray.
Sam Ruland, York Daily Record
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1:40 pm UTC Mar. 9, 2021
About this series: Over the next several weeks, reporters with USA Today s Pennsylvania network will take a look back at the impact COVID-19 has had on the commonwealth over the past year, and what the future holds.
Neighborhoods across the state some lined with million-dollar homes, others by more modest dwellings struggled to survive this year as the coronavirus pandemic uprooted the lives of Pennsylvanians everywhere. But while the unprecedented catastrophe was shared by millions adjusting to their new normal, the suffering was not equally spread.
For low-income Pennsylvanians like Elena, a mother of two without reliable income to pay the bills, surviving the pandemic was made harder by financial and structural imbalances that almost ensure the most marginalized residents bear the heaviest burdens of a public health crisis.
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