Working parents with schoolkids at home due to COVID-19 should be eligible for federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance. But that’s not working out for some.
The president over the weekend signed a memorandum extending the current payment pause and interest waiver for most federal student loans through the end of the year.
Yale research says there were a lot of reasons people did not go back to work that were more important, like lack of child care or the fear of getting COVID-19.