While doing some news reading at Yahoo news just now I ran across a story that honestly made me go DUH!
The title of the story is “Many workers live paycheck to paycheck” and can be read HERE. The story stars off by saying
“Four out of 10 U.S. workers often or always live from paycheck to paycheck, according to a survey released on Monday.”
I don’t find this surprising in any way. Most of the families I know live week to week/paycheck to paycheck and struggle to make ends meet, my own family included. Now I will admit that even though we struggle, you’ll find it hard to get me to say that my family wants for things. We’re very lucky and very blessed in the fact that we either run across great deals or have connections to people that do, so when there is something we honestly need, we find a way to make it happen in a relatively short period of time! We have one item in our entire home that is not fully paid for, but that was something that simply couldn’t have been helped and had to be financed.
The article goes on to say:
“The new survey said 19 percent of workers who earn $100,000 or more annually often or always live paycheck to paycheck.
WHOA, that’s just amazing. I honestly thought that people who made that kind of money saved, but I guess the old adage is true “The more you make, the more you spend”.
Anyway, it’s a really great article to read, so be sure to check it out!
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March 16th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Why is it that no one seems to realize there are hundreds of thousands of people who don’t work in offices and earn several thousand dollars every week? It seems AOL has probably never herd the term “factory worker.” Any news item they post that contains the word “job” means “office job.” If I ever got one of those “AOL low paying, $100,000 a year office jobs,” I don’t know what I would have done with the extra $70,000 per year that just isn’t enough for those poor rich people to get by on. I’m thinking that the gap between the classes is getting too wide to bridge.