Welcome to PSA Thursday. This is a special weekly-ish bonus segment of the

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

life in the midst of a pandemic. These episodes aspire to come out on Thursday,

but of course this episode is coming out on Saturday. So this is really PSA

end of the week. My name is Paula Pat. I'm the host of the Affordable Care Podcast.

If you are new to the PSA Thursday segments, here's what you can expect. These

are stripped down bare bones versions of the podcast. These are nothing like our

normal episodes. There's no intro music, no outro music, no sound effects. We do

minimal editing. The interviews have no key takeaways. Each episode is typically

shorter than our usual material, and we try to focus every episode on getting a

comprehensive in-depth understanding that is applicable, ideally applicable to

your life, about some topic that relates to 2020. So for example, in the past,

we've talked about how you can find funding if you are a small business owner or

an entrepreneur, both by covering the PPP, the Paycheck Protection Program, as

well as discussing other options or other alternatives outside of that. We have

talked about donor-advised funds. If this year has inspired you to give more to

donate, what is a donor-advised fund? How can you set one up? Where should you set

one up? We covered all of that. Those are some examples of many of the topics

that we've covered in previous PSA Thursday episodes. You can find the archives

at affordanything.com slash PSA Thursday. In today's episode, we are going to

attempt the impossible, which is we are going to try to have a reasoned, thoughtful

conversation that is applicable to your life about how you can plan and budget

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