What $600 Buys By Marie Solis | December 21, 2020 | 3:55am Politics Copy to clipboard × Copy Link Facebook 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 In Defense of Hugh Grant Falling Asleep at Wimbledon On Justin Bieber's New Album, Marriage Never Sounded So Terrible! Lena Dunham Says She Saw MAGA's Rise Coming More from JezebelPam Bondi Responds to MAGA Uproar Over Epstein Files: 'Today Is About Fentanyl'Welp, Now We Know Why Sydney Sweeney Was at the Bezos WeddingIn Defense of Hugh Grant Falling Asleep at Wimbledon 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:
