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Survey shows effect of virus on food, rent payments

ORLANDO, Fla. — More than 10 percent of U.S. households in a survey last week said they could not get enough of the food they needed some of the time or often, and almost a quarter of respondents said they will have difficulty paying their rent or mortgage or will defer payments, according to survey results released Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Household Pulse Survey showed that around 40 percent of respondents said last week they had delayed seeking medical care as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, and a little under half of the households surveyed last week had some loss of job-related income.

Almost 100 percent of respondents with kids in school had education plans disrupted by school closures, transitions to online learning or having parents teach at home.

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