64 percent of Americans say they're living paycheck to paycheck
WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast
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🗓️ 31 January 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Pat Sullivan here to remind you to stop putting screens on your gutters, better to schedule |
| 0:04.2 | a free estimate with the local experts at gutter helmet. |
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| 0:11.5 | You'll never clean your gutters again. |
| 0:13.6 | gutterhelmetindie.com. |
| 0:14.6 | Yes. |
| 0:15.6 | And so I saw this article and it, it floored me. |
| 0:18.3 | I put it on our t's. |
| 0:19.3 | I was so floored by it. |
| 0:20.5 | And then I read it. |
| 0:21.5 | And apparently it is a thing that people 64% of Americans say they're living paycheck |
| 0:28.3 | to paycheck. |
| 0:29.3 | Yes. |
| 0:30.3 | And it's equivalent to 166 million people, but here's the crazy part about this. |
| 0:38.0 | Out of this group, eight million of them were earning more than $100,000 a year. |
| 0:43.3 | Okay. |
| 0:44.3 | So I saw this and it blew my mind. |
| 0:48.6 | Now clearly, and I think we know this, we have a serious gap in terms of financial literacy, |
| 0:54.1 | which is shocking, considering we're set to probably give over $20 billion to public |
| 0:58.8 | education in the state, in the budget they're about to pass. |
| 1:03.0 | Maybe the free textbooks will help the financial literacy this time. |
| 1:06.1 | Maybe that'll be the answer. |
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