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This doesn't surprise me at all as an European. My mind struggles to understand how so many Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
by Hamuko 9mo ago
This doesn't surprise me at all as an European. My mind struggles to understand how so many Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
- pas 9mo agothat's true to some extent, but at this point it's mostly a meme (at least the 60% number was) > In 2023, 54 percent of adults said they had set aside money for three months of expenses in an emergency savings or “rainy day” fund—unchanged from 2022 but down from a high of 59 percent of adults in 2021. https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/2023-report-economic-well-being-us-households-202405.pdf https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/2023-repor... via https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/paycheck-to-paycheck-and-five-other https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/paycheck-to-paycheck-and-five-...
- Havoc 9mo agoThat’s way higher than I’d have guessed. Maybe there is some sort of bimodal distribution happening there. Half the pop is flat broke the other has multiple months of buffer