The rent is due but many Americans can't pay the bills
According to Amherst, a real estate analytics and investment firm, 26 percent of US renters could need temporary help to pay their monthly housing bill, which would total about $12 billion per-month.
The federal government's unprecedented $2.2 trillion aid package will help ease the economic pain, but the $1,200 checks promised to every American -- and $500 for each child -- will not arrive until the second half of April.
In the meantime, a record 3.3 million Americans filed for unemployment during the week ended March 21, as thousands of small and large businesses were forced to close their doors....