Juliana Ospina Cano is executive director of Conexión Américas.
The United States recognizes April as Financial Literacy Month, but more painfully, April marks the thirteenth month of lives being forever altered by the COVID-19 pandemic.
It brings into acute focus the financial fragility of many Americans which has been exacerbated by the pandemic.
Of the 15% of Americans who reported losing a job because of the pandemic, lower-income adults were disproportionately unemployed, according to research conducted by Pew during the heart of the pandemic.
Some 56% of workers with lower incomes who lost their job because of the coronavirus outbreak said they were currently unemployed, compared with 42% of middle- and upper-income adults.[1]
Nashville Tennessean
The mayor of Jackson has an idea one that stems from Tennessee having hundreds of millions of dollars in unused federal grants available for struggling families, and a significant number of those families in his community.
Mayor Scott Conger, with help from city staff, last week submitted a proposal to state officials asking them to consider sharing a small portion of Tennessee s $741 million reserve of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families grants to help the West Tennessee city get people in the region back on their feet. Just come to Madison County, and 48% of our households are either ALICE Asset