What $600 Buys By Marie Solis | December 21, 2020 | 3:55am Politics × Copy Link Facebook X Reddit Bluesky Email ! Photo:Alex Edelman / AFP (Getty Images) What $600 buys: About half of your monthly rent. About one-tenth of the thousands of dollars you owe in unpaid rent and utility bills after months without government relief. One-and-a-half student loan payments. Less than 10 percent of your credit card debt. A little more than a quarter of your medical debt. Just one month of health insurance if you’re an individual, or just half of your monthly health insurance costs if you’re a family of four. Childcare for one of your children for less than one month. Transportation to childcare, your job, the grocery store, the food pantry, for about one month. Food for your family for just two weeks. Most Popular George Clooney Sounds Like a Lovely House Husband Ohio Woman Faces ‘Abuse of a Corpse’ Charge for Miscarriage in Another Post-Roe Nightmare Abortion Access Will, Once Again, Be Decided by the Supreme Court More from JezebelInside the Mind of the Influencer Who Thinks You Should Be Rude to WaitstaffMan Posts Carl Jung Quotes to Intellectualize His BreakupAnna Wintour Is So Last Season Join the discussion... GET JEZEBEL RIGHT IN YOUR INBOX Still here. Still without airbrushing. Still with teeth. Sign Up Leave this field empty if you're human:
