Newsman: Christmas this year came in new reality that has never been seen in modern history or in a century probably. Millions of Americans woke up on Christmas morning in agonies of pandemic with helplessness. The uncertainty yet remains as obvious. Fear seized the livelihood. The devastated impact by covid-19 led the country to -economic recession and unemployment. More than 10 million American lost their job due to the covid-19. Nearly 8 million Americans sunk in the poverty. More than 17 million household with 40 million people with 12 million children facing risk of eviction towards homelessness as the federal eviction expires in January. Hunger crisis gets worsen across US. The food bank lines growing miles away, waiting for hours. Many are givers; but their first time ever to collect foods from the food bank as pandemic pushed them back to the wall. Millions are struggling buying groceries, preparing food, bringing food on the table for their families.
Covid-19 daily deaths in US set all time records high as more than 3000 lives, since the pandemic. The hospitalization rates getting worse, infections are sky rocketing. While the situation is as such, health experts, and CDC warns the darkest winter ahead as covid-19 spreads across US.
Millions of Americans kept hope and waited for the Government’s economic relief package as their last resources for Christmas celebration. Their Christmas is over now, Santa did not full their dinner table and children did not get their ribbon wrapped gifts of joy. Parents were broke in hidden tears. But their Christmas is over now. Political fights in Capitol Hill amid pandemic never ended. Some are so unfortunate ; they are unable to feel the happiness of less fortunate in the society; their Christmas costs only a few hundred bucks, but the ‘most precious their happiness is.’
The Coronavirus pandemic forced the world not only to the new normal, dejected with anxiety, took away the happiness.
The number of Americans living in poverty grew by 8 million since May, according to a Columbia University study, which found an increase in poverty rates after early coronavirus relief ended without more to follow. Columbia researchers tracked monthly poverty rates in the U.S. between February and September, or before and throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
“We find that the monthly poverty rate increased from 15% to 16.7% from February to September 2020, even after taking the CARES Act’s income transfers into account,” wrote the researchers. “Increases in monthly poverty rates have been particularly acute for Black and Hispanic people, as well as for children.”
A family of four earning $26,200 a year or less is considered living below the poverty line, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The total number of people in the U.S. living in poverty is 55 million, including the 8 million who joined their ranks since May, according to the Columbia researchers.
The study comes as negotiations for a new coronavirus stimulus package have stalled and Americans continue to be without relief for the foreseeable future.
The results of the Columbia study are underscored by another recent study published by the University of Chicago and the University of Notre Dame, which found that within the last three months alone, 6 million Americans entered poverty.
Those researchers also found that poverty rates temporarily stabilized amid federal economic intervention, but are now getting worse, particularly for certain groups.
A new report published Friday by the Aspen Institute. Says,Up to 40 million Americans could be evicted by the end of this year. The report warns that the United States may be facing the most severe housing crisis in history if conditions do not change, with up to 43% of renter households facing eviction this year. People of color — particularly Black and Latino Americans — make up about 80% of those facing eviction. Last month, 26% of Black renters and 25% of Latino renters were unable to pay rent compared with 13% of white renters, according to US Census data analyzed by the Aspen Institute.
According to the latest analysis of weekly US Census data, as federal, state, and local protections and resources expire and in the absence of robust and swift intervention, an estimated 30–40 million people in America could be at risk of eviction in the next several months. Many property owners, who lack the credit or financial ability to cover rental payment arrears, will struggle to pay their mortgages and property taxes and maintain properties. The COVID-19 housing crisis has sharply increased the risk of foreclosure and bankruptcy, especially among small property owners; long-term harm to renter families and individuals; disruption of the affordable housing market; and destabilization of communities across the United States.
The research also found the Communities of color are disproportionately rent-burdened and at risk of eviction. People of color are twice as likely to be renters and are disproportionately likely to be low-income and rental cost-burdened. Studies from cities throughout the country have shown that people of color, particularly Black and Latinx people, constitute approximately 80% of people facing eviction.
