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How Bad Is It? One Family's Slide from $70K to Handouts
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How big is your emergency fund? My just-in-cast fund needs a major boost and this story from CNN has an extra message about the need for emergency funds and the importance of a diverse stream of income. The news story features one woman's drop from a salary of $70,000 a year to the food bank line. Here's the opening: When she was laid off in February, Patricia Guerrero was making $70,000 a year. Weeks later, with bills piling up and in need of food for her family, this middle-class mother did something she never thought she would do: She went to a food bank.
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