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Old 03-27-2008, 05:57 PM
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From $70K to food bank, one family's struggle - CNN.com

According to the story, just weeks after losing her job, despite collecting unemployement and having her mother move in to help with the bills, she was applying for food stamps and going to the food bank. She used her tax refund to help pay bills for the first two months. What does that say? I'd say it means she had little to no emergency fund.
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