What $600 Buys

What $600 buys:

• About half of your monthly rent.
• About one-tenth of the thousands of dollars you owe in unpaid rent and utility bills after months without government relief.
• One-and-a-half student loan payments.
• Less than 10 percent of your credit card debt.
• A little more than a quarter of your medical debt.
• Just one month of health insurance if you’re an individual, or just half of your monthly health insurance costs if you’re a family of four.
• Childcare for one of your children for less than one month.
• Transportation to childcare, your job, the grocery store, the food pantry, for about one month.
• Food for your family for just two weeks.