57% of Americans Have Less Than $1,000 in Savings (2017)

Re:57% of Americans Have Less Than $1,000 in Savings (2017) by jdavis703 on Thursday February 08, 2018 @12:06AM (#16330340)

Median income generally increases in areas with a high cost of living. In the San Francisco Bay Area the three largest cities and counties have median income going from $87,000 to $103,000.

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Re:57% of Americans Have Less Than $1,000 in Savings (2017) by vvanders on Thursday February 08, 2018 @01:20AM (#16330569)

Cool, so half of your people are above 87-103k, the other half are good and properly fucked in that situation.

Maybe when we're talking about the bottom 10% or 20% I'll care less but having lived in that situation where even one major would have wiped us out I think it's a pretty serious problem that's often overlooked or blamed away.

I'm doing fine now(yay getting out of gamedev) but I'm always shocked how few of my coworkers are aware that most people are just scraping by.

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Re:57% of Americans Have Less Than $1,000 in Savings (2017) by PatchMonkey on Thursday February 08, 2018 @04:20AM (#16331082)

https://apnews.com/9309128222ab4c4f92b0d0022e1ec133/In-shado...

Oh look, a news story about people with full-time jobs having to sleep in cars.

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