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The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Americans now face a third wave of the coronavirus. New lockdowns may soon follow—this time, without economic support. Many provisions of the CARES Act ran out in July and Congress missed its deadline this week to pass new support before the election. We talk to Prof. Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, an expert on the social safety net, about how dire the economic situation already is for many families. Support this show and all of The Atlantic’s journalism by becoming a subscriber at www.theatlantic.com/supportus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi Catherine.
0:05.0	Hi.
0:06.0	Hi. Did you have a crazy morning?
0:08.0	Did I have a crazy morning?
0:10.0	Well, let me just, um...
0:12.0	I'm going to text you.
0:14.1	Uh-oh.
0:15.1	Ugh, this is what my morning has been.
0:18.8	The bird filed you to Texas.
0:21.6	Oh, my gosh it's a tiny puppy. Where did you find this
0:28.7	little fellow? Um well she was at the pound.
0:33.0	GAL.
0:34.0	She was a stray.
0:35.0	Oh my gosh, you got a pandemic puppy.
0:39.0	Yeah, I mean, she's large, but she is young okay actually we don't know how old I think
0:46.7	basically an exciting question she's 53 pounds and large already wow that's great what
0:52.2	is her name?
0:53.0	I, well, I'm working on it.
0:56.0	I'm not ready to.
0:57.0	I'm trying things out.
0:58.0	I'm not ready to.
0:59.0	So they don't know her name already?
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