The economic effects that the COVID-19 Pandemic has had on numerous households have been disastrous for some, and as a single mother to three, I cannot make clear enough just how much my family and I have been affected by the pandemic; and especially so, because I am the primary breadwinner in the family, making it precariously close to a shaky single-income household. The first few months of the pandemic were some of the lowest points in my life financial-wise, as in those months, I had, through a combination of numerous factors, both old and recent, burned through all of my emergency funds and a then-worrying amount of my financial…