Discount retailer says low-income households feel more ‘financially constrained’ than six months ago

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    -112 days ago

    A lot of people used pandemic relief funds to invest, notably in real estate. As the market returns to reality, those people are finding they’re massively overextended.

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      412 days ago

      A lot of people used pandemic relief funds to invest, notably in real estate.

      $1400 to invest in real estate?!

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        212 days ago

        Disclosure: I’m Canadian, I didn’t catch that this was a US story. In Canada a lot of people who received our equivalent of COVID relief used that money to invest, which made our housing crisis that much worse.