How much do you spend in a month? @NYTMag asked six families to show us how much their lives cost. This is where their money went. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
When the pandemic kept Claudia, a jewelry artisan, from selling her work in Santa Fe’s main plaza, she had to rely on a government loan and a credit card to get by.
One family shared that their emergency funds are slowly dwindling. “There are some days you just want to give up, you want to crawl in a room and sit there and cry and not want to do it, but who’s going to pay my bills?”
A family in Raleigh took their first real vacation since the pandemic began. “We are monitoring the grades of four kids and four different schools — four different school styles, and all in the same county but different calendars. That’s enough, I think, to pull your hair out.”
For the Tran family, a lot of their income goes toward paying law-school debt and rent on a one-bedroom apartment in Mountain View, California, where they work from home.
See more on what American families spend in a month: nyti.ms/3oEhtz6
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