My second year without a job

Re:My second year without a job by tzs on Friday December 06, 2024 @08:52PM (#42346580)

Here's the YouGov survey if anyone is interested [1]. A lot of people do indeed not have a lot of savings:

> One in 10 consumers do not have any savings (12%) while a slightly higher percentage of consumers say they have less than $100 in their savings account (14%). A further 13% of Americans say they have between $1,000 and $4,999 in savings. Altogether, that means that half of all Americans have less than $5,000 to fall back on.

[1] https://business.yougov.com/content/46083-how-much-does-the-...

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Re:My second year without a job by brookside on Friday December 06, 2024 @10:53PM (#42347121)

Savings and savings accounts are being conflated here.

One can have a small amount a savings account with plenty withdraw-able assets in Mutual Funds etc to fall back on

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Re:My second year without a job by wrycoder on Friday December 06, 2024 @11:45PM (#42347337)

In this context, “savings” includes all liquid assets.

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