Welcome to PSA Thursday, an occasional weekly-ish bonus segment of the

Affordable Care Podcast in which we talk about how to manage money, work, and life

in the midst of a pandemic. If you are a new listener to the Affordable Care Podcast

and you're not familiar with PSA Thursday, here's what you need to know.

Number one, these are stripped down bare-bones episodes. There's no production

value, no intro music, no outro music. We intentionally keep it ad-free and each

one of these episodes not only tends to be shorter than our normal shows, but

also focuses on one specific topic. So in the past, for example, previous PSA

Thursday episodes have talked about the CARES Act and the way that it impacts

student loans. How should you rethink your student loan repayment strategy in the

context of the CARES Act, which passed at the start of the pandemic? That was one

of our episodes. We did another episode on how to stay safe as the nation reopens

when you're going out and about, when you're using public restrooms, when you're

going back to the gym for the first time in months. How do you keep yourself safe?

We did an episode about that. We did an episode about the PPP benefits, the Paycheck Protection

Program, and offered additional alternatives for entrepreneurs who are looking for an infusion

of money so that they can keep their small business going. So all of that is covered in

previous PSA Thursday episodes. You can find all of it at affordanything.com slash PSA Thursday.

Today, we are going to talk about a framework for earning extra income. This issue, the need

to make extra income, is particularly timely right now because the $600 enhanced unemployment

benefit has ended. So for those of you who are collecting unemployment or if you have friends,

family, neighbors who are collecting unemployment, then as you know, from March through late July,

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