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1 in 3 American Workers Run Out of Money Before Payday

Thursday, February 13, 2020 8:50

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“You go up to a man, and you say, “How are things going, Joe?” and he says, “Oh fine, fine… couldn’t be better.” And you look into his eyes, and you see things really couldn’t be much worse. When you get right down to it, everybody’s having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everybody. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much.”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“1 in 3 American Workers Run Out of Money Before Payday”

by Megan Leonhardt

“Going extra light at the grocery store. Cutting down on medical supplies. Buying clothing and household supplies secondhand. These are just some of the many ways many Americans are making it work when money is tight. For about a third of Americans, this is a regular financial stress, with 32% running out of money before their next paycheck hits, according to a new survey fielded by Salary Finance of over 2,700 U.S. adults working at companies with over 500 employees.

Amy,* 36, is intimately familiar with running short on cash and using these workarounds, especially during tax season. That’s in spite of the fact that she and her husband make about $50,000 a year, just short of the average household income in the U.S.

“Tax time hurts for us because we don’t get a refund, we get a bill,” she tells CNBC Make It. Her husband, the primary earner, works for a company in a different state, so state income taxes aren’t taken out, she says. While they typically get a federal refund, they end up owing the state more than the federal refund.

We never have a lot, but spring, summer and fall we can usually get what we want at the grocery store,” Amy says. The hard times start pretty much as soon as winter hits because the heat bill goes up, and she and her husband know tax time is coming soon. It’s back to cutting corners at the grocery store, or hitting up the fresh food giveaways that occur in their region of central New York.

This year, they’ve opted to also cut down on some of her husband’s CPAP machine supplies in an effort to find ways to save. “We’ve been fortunate to not have many unexpected bills pop up over the past couple years, so we’ve been able to hold fairly steady lately. But it’s scary, of course,” she adds, saying she’s fearful they’ll need a new roof soon – a huge expense. “We’re OK, but we’re also just one bad day away from things turning horrible,” Amy says.

Contrary to popular belief, “this is not just an issue for people at the lower end of the income spectrum,” Dan Macklin, Salary Finance’s U.S. CEO and co-founder of SoFi, tells CNBC Make It. About 31% of respondents earning over $100,000 also regularly experience a budget shortfall before payday.

For many, it’s the rising cost of living – including food, housing, education and medical expenses – that creates the squeeze. Over the past year, basic costs increased by 2.3%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s Consumer Price Index. The cost of medical care rose 4.6% in 2019, the largest year-over-year increase since 2007, the BLS reports. Housing also jumped 3.2% last year, while education expenses rose 2.1% and food prices increased about 1.8%.

For others, it’s stagnant wages. Real wages effectively remained stalled last year, showing only a 0.2% year-over-year increase, according to the PayScale Index. But looking longer term, Payscale found median wages, when adjusted for inflation, actually declined 9% since 2006.

No matter the underlying reason, the struggle to pay bills and put food on the table when you’re short on cash leads to a lot of stress, the survey finds. Financial stress is very prevalent today, with 42% of working Americans experiencing it. It’s a percentage that Macklin finds “extremely worrying.” That’s because that financial stress can have lasting effects on your mental and physical health, he says. Those with financial worries are six times more likely to suffer from anxiety and seven times more prone to depression, Salary Finance’s survey found.”

- https://www.cnbc.com/

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Anonymous

Yet you just posted the propaganda lie that most Americans claim to be better off since Trump. The propaganda teams are getting their lies mixed up.

/opinion-conservative/2020/02/heading-into-the-elections-more-americans-say-they-are-better-off-3508446.html

Feb 13, 2020, 9:07 am 0 Reply

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