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When financial progress can be wiped out by single unfortunate events

I saved for two years to buy my daughter a laptop for school but it got stolen from our car and I cannot afford to replace it before her assignments are due.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The absence of financial cushions makes normal setbacks catastrophic for families without resources.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Class and structural disadvantage?”

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