Nearly a quarter of households live paycheck to paycheck
WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast
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🗓️ 18 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Has your house become a burden? Why not sell it us? Simple Quarters is a local Christian company that loves to assist people in difficult situations. |
| 0:08.0 | Wanda has been in real estate, I've been in construction. Probably we flipped about 40 houses. |
| 0:14.0 | I don't want to do it anymore. We're in our early 80s. Sometimes you have to give it up. |
| 0:19.0 | Gabe, he did a good job. |
| 0:20.0 | When I got the purchase agreement, and he did have things in there that was pertinent to me. |
| 0:25.2 | James followed through what he said. |
| 0:27.0 | Call simple quarters 317, 900 home. |
| 0:30.1 | Nearly a quarter of U.S. households live paycheck to paycheck. |
| 0:33.8 | 25%. |
| 0:34.5 | 25%. |
| 0:35.8 | Now, this is a growing share of lower income Americans. They're definitely |
| 0:40.1 | struggling to get by financially. Wages are stagnant, inflation on the rise. That is a recipe for |
| 0:48.5 | disaster. Wages, stagnant, prices on the rise. And so what that means is literally every day you are worth less than you were the day before. |
| 1:00.0 | And you know what's fascinating is we're reaching a point and nobody's really talking about this yet, but even what I call the secondary job market is getting kind of tight out there. Like every, so often I just peruse the secondary job market, |
| 1:15.5 | like kind of what I call part-time. |
| 1:17.4 | Right. |
| 1:18.4 | I mean, for some people, they're full-time jobs, |
| 1:19.3 | but for a lot of people, they would be like a secondary, |
| 1:21.3 | like I work at a hardware store or Walmart or whatever. |
| 1:26.1 | And even the secondary job market out there, which would, a lot of times you could always be like, well, worst case scenario, I'd go get a second job. Like for two years, I worked golf course, bartender, ran the pro shop, something to do in the evenings and weekends before my daughter was born. And, and like, that was a fun. I love golf. It it was a fun I liked the job like the people made |
| 1:45.9 | decent money a fun secondary job but I looked at other jobs as well and a lot of those jobs aren't |
| 1:50.5 | out there right now and the other thing is they aren't paying what they were paying a couple |
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