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Re:This 4×6 index card has all the financial advice you’ll e... by ajuc on Monday September 16, 2013 @10:39PM (#6397281)
You have food stamps, cheap oil and electricity, unemployement smaller than 10%, and if you are homeless you can move to a state that doesn't have winters capable of killing you.

People in Eastern Europe save money and 50% of Americans can't?

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Re:This 4×6 index card has all the financial advice you’ll e... by MacsHeadroom on Monday September 16, 2013 @11:20PM (#6397380)
41% of working age Americans are jobless. The official unemployment calculation is a joke.
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Re:This 4×6 index card has all the financial advice you’ll e... by idProQuo on Monday September 16, 2013 @11:44PM (#6397443)
Whoa, we're gonna need a source for that kind of fact.
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Re:This 4×6 index card has all the financial advice you’ll e... by pinaceae on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @12:22AM (#6397546)
there would be civil war if this were remotely true. ever think about those "facts" for a second?
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Re:This 4×6 index card has all the financial advice you’ll e... by humanrebar on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @10:19AM (#6399398)
He's probably referring to the employment rate, which was 66.6% in 2011 according to OECD numbers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_rate
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