{"id":27552,"date":"2017-11-02T09:13:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T14:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27552"},"modified":"2017-11-02T09:13:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T14:13:44","slug":"78-percent-of-u-s-workers-are-living-paycheck-to-paycheck-and-71-percent-of-them-are-in-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27552","title":{"rendered":"78 Percent Of U.S. Workers Are Living \u2018Paycheck To Paycheck\u2019 And 71 Percent Of Them Are In Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-headline\">\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/78-percent-of-u-s-workers-are-living-paycheck-to-paycheck-and-71-percent-of-them-are-in-debt\">78 Percent Of U.S. Workers Are Living \u2018Paycheck To Paycheck\u2019 And 71 Percent Of Them Are In Debt<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 16px;\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/78-percent-of-u-s-workers-are-living-paycheck-to-paycheck-and-71-percent-of-them-are-in-debt\/worker-on-the-job-public-domain\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13041\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13041\" src=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Worker-On-The-Job-Public-Domain-460x306.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Worker-On-The-Job-Public-Domain-460x306.jpg 460w, http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Worker-On-The-Job-Public-Domain-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Worker-On-The-Job-Public-Domain-768x510.jpg 768w, http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Worker-On-The-Job-Public-Domain-425x282.jpg 425w, http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Worker-On-The-Job-Public-Domain-400x266.jpg 400w, http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Worker-On-The-Job-Public-Domain.jpg 960w\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a>Are you living paycheck to paycheck?\u00a0 Is so, you are just like most other hard working Americans.\u00a0 As you will see below, <strong>78 percent<\/strong> of full-time workers in the United States say that they are living paycheck to paycheck.\u00a0 That is the highest figure ever recorded, and it is yet more evidence that the middle class is under <a title=\"an increasing amount of stress\" href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/will-americas-prosperity-be-completely-wiped-out-by-our-growing-debt\">an increasing amount of stress<\/a>.\u00a0 The cost of living is rising at a much faster pace than our paychecks are, and more families are falling out of the middle class with each passing month.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this is something that the mainstream media really doesn\u2019t want to talk about these days.\u00a0 Instead, they just keep having us focus on the soaring financial markets which are being grossly artificially inflated by global central banks.<\/p>\n<p>When I came across the numbers that I am about to share with you I was actually quite stunned.\u00a0 I knew that things were not great in \u201cthe real economy\u201d, but I didn\u2019t expect that the number of Americans living paycheck to paycheck would actually be rising.\u00a0 But that is precisely what a brand new survey <a title=\"that was just released by CareerBuilder\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/08\/24\/most-americans-live-paycheck-to-paycheck.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that was just released by CareerBuilder<\/a> is saying\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Seventy-eight percent of full-time workers said they live paycheck to paycheck, up from 75 percent last year, according to a recent report from CareerBuilder.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Overall, 71 percent of all U.S. workers said they\u2019re now in debt, up from 68 percent a year ago, CareerBuilder said.<\/p>\n<p>While 46 percent said their debt is manageable, 56 percent said they were in over their heads. About 56 percent also save $100 or less each month, according to CareerBuilder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>78 Percent Of U.S. Workers Are Living \u2018Paycheck To Paycheck\u2019 And 71 Percent Of Them Are In Debt Are you living paycheck to paycheck?\u00a0 Is so, you are just like most other hard working Americans.\u00a0 As you will see below, 78 percent of full-time workers in the United States say that they are living paycheck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16833,195,14713,1782,3461,15303,6069,15304,15305,16834,4901,16835,16836,1469,16837,16838,16839],"class_list":["post-27552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-americans-are-living-paycheck-to-paycheck","tag-debt","tag-debt-slaves","tag-debt-spiral","tag-debts","tag-depressions","tag-economic-collapse-blog","tag-economic-pain","tag-economic-problems","tag-living-paycheck-to-paycheck","tag-michael-snyder","tag-paycheck-to-paycheck","tag-paychecks","tag-stress","tag-stressed","tag-stressed-out","tag-under-stress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27553,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27552\/revisions\/27553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}