Josette Denis got an unusual kind of Covid relief last spring: $1,000 deposited directly into her Venmo account just as her family was about to fall off a cliff.
The family’s income froze in April after she and her partner, John Mack, an exterminator in New York City, were hospitalized with Covid. As she lay sick in bed, they fell behind on rent, car insurance, her electric bill. She was down to a gallon of milk and cold cuts in her refrigerator for her four young daughters still at home.
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