Jennifer Ludden, NPR NewsAn Oklahoma County deputy serves a renter with a court summons notifying him of an eviction order in Oklahoma City, Okla., on Sept. 15, 2021.
It left Cox in trouble when her company’s business dropped and her hours were cut. She took a temp job elsewhere, but that paid $15 an hour, a substantial hit on her income. The hours also conflicted with her other job, which she left because she figured she would be laid off soon. Cox is among a majority of Black and also Latino households that say they don’t have enough savings to cover one month of expenses. That’s according to a survey by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.