Your money and the pandemic

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🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Advice for managing your money, from personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary. What happens when people are too scared to seek medical care, from Frances Stead Sellers and Jessica Contrera. And what we wear when we’re stuck at home, and what it says about us, from fashion critic Robin Givhan.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:04.8	Hi, this is Vanessa Williams from the Washington Post.
0:08.4	Hey, it's Philip Rutger at the Washington Post.
0:11.0	Do you have a minute?
0:12.0	Hi, this is Dan Zag.
0:13.3	This is Post Reports.
0:14.8	I'm Martine Powers.
0:19.0	It's Thursday, May 7.
0:23.4	Today, advice for managing your money.
0:26.2	What happens when people are too scared to seek medical care?
0:30.1	And what we wear at home.
0:36.9	So the coronavirus has created an economic crisis in addition to the health crisis.
0:43.0	Tens of millions of people are unemployed and applying for unemployment insurance or their
0:50.6	pay has been cut.
0:52.8	The diseases have been shuttered and so there's a lot of economic anxiety amongst so many
0:58.3	people.
1:00.1	Michelle Singletary is a nationally syndicated personal finance columnist.
1:04.6	She spoke with our senior producer Maggie Penman.
1:07.2	You know, already so many people are on the financial edge and this virus just pushed
1:13.8	them over.
1:17.6	So I wanted to start by talking about stimulus checks.
1:21.4	It seems like people have had such wildly different experiences with the stimulus checks
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