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PaulDavisThe1st 87 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Money lessons without money: The financial literac...

I don't know of the veracity of his claim, nor the definition he was using, but Bernie Sanders claimed in Omaha, NE last night that "60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck". If true (and it likely is for some definition of this), seems worth knowing.

Flimm 86 days ago [–]

That statistic is widely repeated but it is contradicted by other studies which paint a rosier picture of Americans' finances. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42357663

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