What else may be used in Turkey is it could be any home in America, the grocery list, negotiation loving Jews we can report.

And like millions of homes across the country right now, you can see the burden.

Nick Stanford and his fianc?

Angela, our shoulder with four Children and a home just north of San Francisco.

There's just not enough money coming in.

How you guys holding up?

Barely getting by?

It's exhausting.

It's stressful trying to stay positive for the kids, but definitely tears at night.

Sometimes we don't know when the next payment's gonna come in.

There is unemployment right now.

Nichols, like more than 16 million other Americans, unemployed things to the Kobe 19 pendant.

What's that like when you get that phone call and went inside?

And I told her, You know, I just lost my job.

The first thing that we did was, you know, get on inside out front appointment.

I have no other options as far as bringing money in my type of words.

So I had thio taken next up.

So, Angela, what was your reaction?

You know, when you when your husband comes in and says Here's what happened?

Yeah, my stomach.

Her immediately.

I was just thinking, you know, rent.

We rely on you know each other's income, uh, help with the bills because Covert 19 isn't just a medical emergency.

It's an economic emergency.

Angela still has her job working from home for now, but that's only half their normal income.

Nick apply for unemployment and received his first deposit at the end of March.

You do receive a debit card through Bank of America, which comes in this former here.

The payment total $450 only about 1/3 of his typical take home not even close to what they need to get some eggs first.

My next.

For this week, we're gonna get some lemonade.

Navigating the new economic normal is a journey full of potholes, frustration and confusion.

I had to lay off about 60 employees one day.

Our income has just dropped so much I filed for unemployment, but I haven't gotten that yet.

There's so many people you applying for it that the system one sounds are experts say 45 million Americans are risk of losing their jobs in the pandemic.

A startling new poll reveals just how much Americans air struggling, 41% reports some loss of income.

More than 1/4 of Americans say someone in their household has been laid off.

What in five are struggling to pay their bills?

They said that they would work with us and we could make four payments, barely barely scraping by on, you know, we're getting behind, you know, were struggling.

And we really need this money.

I just feel like this.

The system that's in place right now it's not.

It's not working.

This is what covet 19 and four kids.

Looks like nearly 3000 miles away in Virginia, Keith Walker and his partner, Billy, aren't sure how they'll make ends meet this man.

12.

Preparing Thio Have my phone interview with food stamps to see if I can possibly get those.

There's my beautiful salon.

Both men are out of work right now, and neither qualifies for unemployment, even though Keith has run a successful salon for a decade.

So it's been more than a month for you.

Do you feel like you've been left behind?

Yes, I have been left, Um, because still, as of right now, no idea if anything's gonna come through or not.

Did you ever think when you're building your business that at some point you would fall through the cracks?

Never, Never thought in a 1,000,000 years never thought it.

What's more, the couple is adopting four Children, all under the age of six.

How do you explain this to them?

The other morning?

Um uh, four year old wanted waffles for breakfast, and we had no waffles, and I could not go to the grocery store.

But we can't go to the store buddy boy to get waffles and we're out of them.

We had to all sit down at the breakfast table, and I had to say, Listen, guys, there's a lot of sick people in the world and we need to stay healthy and we need to stay safe.

So we need to stay home.

Okay.

Do you love me?

I love you, too.

The government has launched several programs for small businesses.

Economist Diane Swonk talking about small businesses.

It seems like they're really suffering.

The sort of heartbreaking part of this is how rapidly small businesses had to shut down and lay people off and how hard it has been for them.

to get access to the funds that were allocated for him and whether or not those funds were even structured right.

We know almost half of small businesses can't make it more than two months, and we're coming up on that mark.

Now, if I may ask, How tight is it getting for you?

I need something soon, probably within the next few weeks.

Here's all the paperwork that I work one every day.

These are applications for loans.

E mails that I replied Thio, the lovely unemployment letter of denial.

I don't know what's gonna happen.

It's kind of crazy.

E just hangs up.

You're doing all the things that people are supposed to do, who live a good life in this country.

And now you find yourself in this situation.

It's the great American life, right?

Like right?

I'm very disappointed, confused, angry people like me that have applied.

We apply, we apply.

And here I am in week, five weeks.

Six.

Whatever weak it is zero income.

Just a few hours up the road in Washington, lawmakers air under pressure to approve 1/4 wave of funding.

The first relief planes included that $1200.1 time relief pain, which is just starting to go out, expanded and enhance unemployment benefits, including a supplemental $600 on each check and loans for small business owners.

But money is going to run out for that by the end of the week.

Congress isn't due back in Washington until May.

Is that enough?

I want to be more.

We're gonna need more.

We have a system that's for a different era and for certainly a different kind of crisis, not one that was ever meant to Whether this kind of crisis may is coming another round.

The bills were coming.

Are people gonna see additional relief?

You think the next 2 to 4 weeks we will get more of the small business lending out there will be more liquidity form.

Or but is it in all the places we need?

No, absolutely not.

As for Nick and Angela, they hoped unemployment money would be at least a stopgap.

Until this week.

Nick made a devastating discovery.

So I just found out that there was fraud on my Bank of America card on me D D card.

So now at the cancel, my card order a new one would imagine there have been many hard days what's been the hardest?

What did that day look like every day that it adds more stress?

And I felt like yesterday was almost breaking point with us.

If you could talk to President Trump, what might you say to him?

You know, it's great for the stimulus tricks are coming out, but I don't know that families today we decided to take the kids on a hike.

For Keith Walker, the struggle right now is just to keep some kind of work going.

He started making color kits to go for his clients.

What I do is I dropped it off at their doorstep.

There's no interaction.

There's no contact.

They either pay me by Venmo or they'll leave a cheque taped to their front door.

There is a calmness to you in the midst of this storm.

What does that come from?

My faith, Um, and my Children.

As frustrating as it is, I know that it will be okay and I just have to hold it together.

One more day is what I tell myself each day.

Just together One more day.

Be strong for the kids.

One more day and things will change and if not, will still be okay.

Hope is a choice many Americans are making.

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