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Results from a recent survey show how American families are using their expanded child tax credits: emergency savings, paying bills, and investing in their kids.

Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Housing Distress During The Pandemic from the St Louis Fed The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread disruption to family financial stability, among many other things. According to the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey, around 18.6 million Americans reported experiencing housing distress (defined as falling behind on mortgage or rent payments) during the period of Jan. 20 to Feb. 1, 2021. Falling behind on payments can lead to eviction or foreclosure, both of which can be devastating for households’ financial, physical and mental health. Furthermor...

Study finds Israel early on offered better social policies, income support to its struggling households than U.S. March 9, 2021 SHARE The pandemic is exacerbating preexisting social and economic inequalities in the United States and abroad, finds a new study from the Social Policy Institute (SPI) at Washington University in St. Louis. The study, “Household Spending Patterns and Hardships during COVID-19: A Comparative Study of the U.S. and Israel,” draws on national surveys conducted early in the pandemic to investigate COVID-19’s effects on self-reported consumer spending behavior...

Abaco, with we saw those first images of the property destruction. as you mentioned, the priority is life. and rescuing those who are still on that island. a few moments ago, my colleague from cnn espanol record this had vid video where a 10-year-old boy was plucked by the u.s. coast guard and brought back here to this airport. he was crying. they were hugging him. understandably, very emotional that this boy was found and brought back to his family. another man, stephen roll lived through this storm and he says this was not a cat 5. he says this had to be -- if there were other categories, so...

Apartment. the wind came, blew every window out. i had to improvise, use a drop cord. the only thing that saved our life is our dump truck. we have a business in abaco. we had to huddle up in the truck. glass started to break. we had to stick through it. the eye came. that's what also saved us to head over to the clinic. the clinic is basically one of the two shelters that's holding up, that's strong, and everyone is going there. it's crazy. >> stephen says that five to seven-minute window, by his estimate, was enough for them to get from his apartment to that clinic where he says there are hu...