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🗓️ 16 November 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, let's see if I still remember how to do this. |
| 0:04.4 | New studies showing a job in America is not a ticket out of poverty. |
| 0:09.5 | One in four Americans between the ages of 21 and 69 working full time are living paycheck to paycheck. |
| 0:16.7 | That's according to a new report by Bank of America. |
| 0:20.9 | But PNC Bank's annual financial wellness in the workplace report says it is much worse, |
| 0:28.8 | putting the number at 67% of Americans working today are living paycheck to paycheck. |
| 0:36.6 | These are working adults spending at least 95% of their entire income on food, rent, clothing, |
| 0:45.0 | transportation with nothing left over in case of an emergency. |
| 0:49.8 | The Bureau of Labor Statistics, remember the Bureau of Labor Statistics? |
| 0:53.7 | Trump is pretty much gutted it, |
| 0:55.7 | and we're probably not going to see any numbers for October or November. But before Trump got |
| 1:01.8 | his hands on the Bureau of Labor Statistics, it was already showing that under Trump, wages |
| 1:09.0 | are not keeping up with inflation. |
| 1:13.3 | Inflation, which is getting worse since Trump took office, that's why he gutted the Bureau |
| 1:20.5 | of Labor Statistics. |
| 1:22.3 | He doesn't want you to know. |
| 1:24.2 | All the available numbers showing inflation skyrocketing on essentials like rent and food, |
| 1:30.8 | at least half of all working adult Americans saying their paychecks come in, go right out the |
| 1:38.5 | door with absolutely nothing left over. These are working Americans, and we know half of all adults working or not |
| 1:47.7 | working cannot come up with $500 in cash for an emergency. We're seeing right now a record number of |
| 1:54.9 | people defaulting on their car loans. We're seeing record credit card debt. Americans owe $1,230 billion to Visa and MasterCard. |
| 2:08.0 | That's a record, and they're forced to pay on average 23% interest on that. |
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