Welcome to PSA Thursday. This is an occasional bonus segment of the Afford Anything Podcast

in which we talk about how to handle money, work, and life in the context of the new

environment that we are all living in in the pandemic of 2020.

In previous PSA Thursday episodes, we talked about the CARES Act and how that affects

student loan repayment, ways that you should rethink your student loan repayment strategy

in the context of this new act. We talked about PPP funding for small business owners

and entrepreneurs and alternative ways to find funding if you need money to keep your

small business afloat in 2020. We talked about donor advised funds if this year has

inspired you to make more charitable donations. You can find all of this and more in our PSA

Thursday archives at Afford Anything.com slash PSA Thursday.

If you are a new listener, the thing to know is that these PSA Thursday episodes are

stripped down bare bones, basic versions of the Afford Anything Podcast. On these episodes,

we don't have intro music, we don't have outro music, there's no crazy production value.

Our interviews don't have key takeaways at the end, we keep these episodes intentionally

ad-free, so in these episodes, we cut straight to the chase. They're typically much shorter

than our usual episodes. And they focus on one very specific and usually timely topic.

This is the beginning of August. We interviewed two teachers, a middle school teacher and a high

school teacher, for their perspective about what lays ahead in terms of schools. How

can parents best support their kids in an environment where some kids are going back to school

physically, back to the classroom in person. Others are learning from home and others

are doing a hybrid model. So we talked with two teachers in a previous episode about how

to manage a school year that is like no other. Now, as the summer break ends in today's

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