Los Angeles Unified School District students work on school-issued computers with unreliable internet connectivity, during the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease, in Los Angeles August 18, 2020. — Reuters pic
The report from personal finance company Credit Karma found 33 per cent of more than 1,000 parents whose children would be at home at least part of the time surveyed in July don’t feel financially prepared for extra expenses associated with their children learning at home. Another 32 per cent said they “had no option other than going into debt to provide school supplies,” while 27 per cent said they “now have to pay for breakfast and lunch for my kid, which their school usually provides.”
More than half of single mothers reported feeling unprepared for the added expenses, the most of any group surveyed.