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Re:Despite rising wages, 61% of Americans are still living p... by dragonwriter on Thursday February 17, 2022 @02:38PM (#30377639)
If you have a significant rate of positive saving/investment from income surplus to current consumption, you are not living “paycheck to paycheck”.
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Re:Despite rising wages, 61% of Americans are still living p... by anm89 on Friday February 18, 2022 @01:43AM (#30382809)
If it's going into restricted accounts like 401ks and HSAs you could be putting away a lot and still very literally be pay check to paycheck for your monthly expenses.
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Re:Despite rising wages, 61% of Americans are still living p... by legitster on Thursday February 17, 2022 @02:44PM (#30377714)
I'm not sure if that's how I would have responded to this survey based on the wording of the question.
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Re:Despite rising wages, 61% of Americans are still living p... by dragonwriter on Thursday February 17, 2022 @03:00PM (#30377918)
I think the term is widely enough understood that most people would understand it, but I also will agree that reliably measuring facts other than the fact of the popularity of opinion by a one-question survey that does nothing to confirm a common understanding of the question is very much unreliable.
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