This is Leo from Erwin. My dad is trying to secure loans from the paycheck protection

program while my two-year-old brother is climbing on him. This broadcast is reported at

1.55 pm on Wednesday, April 29th. One thing I can absolutely relate to is having a toddler

crawl on you when you're trying to get something done these days. Hey there, it's the MPR

Politics Podcast. I'm Susan Davis. I cover Congress. I'm Scott Horsley. I cover the economy.

I'm Dominic Amatson. I'm a senior political editor and correspondent. Half of Americans

now say they've taken a financial hit because of the coronavirus pandemic and the economy

shrank at an annual rate of almost 5% in the last three months. Dominico, that half of

Americans said that comes from our latest MPR PBS Maris poll. That's a huge number. Put

this in perspective. It's a huge number. 50% of Americans now say that they have been

financially affected by coronavirus. Either they or someone in their household has either

lost hours at their job or lost their job entirely. That's up from 18% when we asked that

question a month ago, which really just shows you how deep this is starting to go and what

could happen if this continues? Not everyone has been affected equally though. I mean,

non-whites have been affected harder. Who else? Yeah, 60% of non-whites said they are

someone in their household has lost hours or a job compared with 43% of whites. In addition,

55% of those without a college degree say that they've been affected as opposed to about

45% of those with a college degree. People under 45 more affected and people who make less

than $50,000 a year. So really the most vulnerable in society taking the hardest hit here.

Scott, this doesn't really seem like a surprise when you think about everything that we're

already feeling and the unemployment numbers that have gone up and up. I think they're

well over 20 million now. So an economic slowdown, no big surprise. That's right. So I mean,

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