Source: Austin Weinstein, WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 10/9/20


Diyrone Solomon, a deputy sheriff in Halifax County, filed for bankruptcy after the pandemic hit and hours at his second job tending rental properties were cut. Robin Hullett and her husband, Kevin, a factory worker from Burnsville, filed because steep medical bills kept coming. Elizabeth McIntosh and her husband, John, filed because his health couldn’t take truck driving anymore — and less money in a safer job couldn’t cover the bills from his heart attack years before.

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