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Mar. 15, 2021
Rebecca Marotta was supposed to start work at a day care just as coronavirus stay-at-home orders began in Massachusetts last March. Instead, the 27-year-old single mom gave up her job to be with her two children, who had started remote learning at home.
Marotta said she spent months living on Pandemic Unemployment Assistance and working for Instacart, but it wasn’t enough to make ends meet. Worried she would have to go back to living in a homeless shelter, she cut costs however she could. By December, she had $30 in her checking account, she said, and cried knowing she wouldn’t be able to afford many Christmas presents for her kids.