https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/10/19/for-many-californians-the-pandemic-marks-the-end-of-barely-making-it/ > Sarah Rivas was barely making rent since she’d moved to Sunnyvale. So when, three months into the pandemic, she woke up to an email from her school announcing a nearly 7% cut in teachers’ pay, she gave up a three-year battle. > “I moved into my parents’ house,” said Rivas, who’s been teaching her class of twelfth-graders from Sacramento, three hours from their high school. “Not what every 26-year-old wants to do.”