new Pew Research Center study was conducted on 13,200 U.S. adults in August 2020.“A third have dipped into savings or retirement accounts to make ends meet, and about one-in-six have borrowed money from friends or family or gotten food from a food bank,” the study revealed.The Pew Research Center also saw that these patterns are becoming most common among adults with lower incomes, those without college degrees and especially among Black and Hispanic Americans.RELATED: UMD researchers using machine to study how people spread COVID-19Of those who make lower incomes, 46% of the surveyed adults said they were having trouble paying their bills since the beginning of the pandemic and about a third (32%) said they were having trouble making rent.