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Poll: What’s your financial backstop if the pandemic breaks your household’s income and you’ve exhausted emergency savings, unemployment benefits, if any, and maxed out credit cards as much as you dare?
  • Dip into retirement funds
    38.2%
  • Sell assets (car, house)
    14.9%
  • Close friends/family
    42%
  • Kindness of strangers
    4.9%
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Our situation: as student foreigners, we don’t qualify for any American relief. Our firm in Lima is freezing, and we have received no income in a couple of months. Outstanding payments are being stopped “until things go back to normal.” We’re already eating our retirement funds.
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