In January, Marek and Kothney-Issa Bush, both 28, earned a combined income of $56,000 and had settled into life in a tiny home community in Lake Dallas, Texas. The couple started the year completely debt-free, having paid off the last of their $125,000 debt in 2019. By March, the coronavirus pandemic resulted in Kothney-Issa losing both of her jobs while the national retailer where Marek worked as a theft and fraud investigator shuttered all of its locations. He'll get paid for the next two weeks, but after that, he doesn't know.

This is the latest installment of Millennial Money, which profiles people across the U.S. and details how they earn and spend their money.

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