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The government created new temporary programs and suspended others to ease financial burdens during the pandemic. Now that’s all going away. 1675427383 / Shutterstock.com
COVID-19 has not gone away — thousands of new cases are admitted to hospitals each week — but it’s no longer considered a pandemic-level crisis. And that means some of the federal government’s emergency programs designed to cut Americans financial slack in such unprecedented times are going away, even though the cost of living has not returned to pre-pandemic levels. As those programs wind down…