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I've got an article in my hands, this is a

CMBC article, this is written in kind of the first person, a reporter, and I'm just going to

skip all over that and get to the reality here.

Over half of Americans earning more than $100,000 a year are living paycheck to paycheck.

This is according to a recent report by Payments and Lending Club.

Earning more than $100,000 a year would put you well ahead of the median American

household which brings in $74,780.

So assuming you're an individual with the pendents at salary would qualify you as upper class through three different definitions

But if we skip the whole upper class, middle class all that we're talking about people

Making over $100,000 a year that are living paycheck to paycheck.

According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, you'd have to earn about $129,000 today

to have the same purchasing power that a salary of $100,000 had just a decade ago.

So how for your dollar goes depends on cost of living? And George, we say things like cost of living, but then that just

assumes it's like, well, this is just what it is. No, you determine your cost of your living.

Just because you live in one reason of the country or the other

doesn't mean that you have no responsibility or no say in your cost of living and you

were just telling me something which I want to cite because I think this is a great example and you said that you were in a little which I don't know why you do this but that's not the point you were in a little

little a little TIF if you will with someone on social media today and the guy was giving you

the business about how in the world can you say that you can live in a New York City

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