{"id":1394,"date":"2010-09-24T08:20:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T13:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdmproofing.com\/iym\/weblog\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2010-09-23T23:07:05","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T04:07:05","slug":"77-living-paycheck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mdmproofing.com\/iym\/weblog\/2010\/09\/77-living-paycheck\/","title":{"rendered":"CareerBuilder: 77% Living Paycheck to Paycheck"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:right; margin: 0 0 14px 14px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mdmproofing.com\/iym\/weblog\/graphics\/generic-wallet.gif\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<p>Now this is some encouraging news &#8230; if you enjoy financial distress.<\/p>\n<p>If we&#8217;re to believe CareerBuilder&#8217;s survey of 4,500 U.S. workers &#8212; and I don&#8217;t really have a great reason not to &#8212; then roughly 77 percent of us describe ourselves as living paycheck to paycheck:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article\">CareerBuilder: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.careerbuilder.com\/share\/aboutus\/pressreleasesdetail.aspx?id=pr584&#038;sd=9%2f1%2f2010&#038;ed=12%2f31%2f2010&#038;siteid=cbpr&#038;sc_cmp1=cb_pr584_\" target=\"_blank\">Nearly 8 in 10 Living Paycheck to Paycheck<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>From the article:<\/p>\n<div class=\"blurb\">Nearly eight-in-ten (77 percent) workers report that they live paycheck to paycheck to make ends meet. Sixty-one percent of workers said that they felt they lived paycheck to paycheck to make ends meet in 2009. Workers went on to say that sometimes they are unable to make ends meet at all, with one-in-five (22 percent) saying they have missed payments on bills in the last year.<\/div>\n<p>Ouch.  Earlier this year, I mentioned that more and more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdmproofing.com\/iym\/weblog\/2010\/07\/100k-paycheck-to-paycheck\/\">$100k workers<\/a> were living paycheck to paycheck, too.  <\/p>\n<p>For those of you who like charts, here&#8217;s one with a bit more data from the CareerBuilder survey:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mdmproofing.com\/iym\/weblog\/graphics\/survey-paycheck.gif\" alt=\"\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Pretty great, ain&#8217;t it, that more people were willing to dip into savings and retirement accounts than were willing to cancel their cable TV and other subscriptions.  What the hell are people thinking?<\/p>\n<p>And since I&#8217;ve already got Excel open, I might as well update this running chart while I&#8217;m at it:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mdmproofing.com\/iym\/weblog\/graphics\/survey-paycheck2.gif\" alt=\"\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in comparisons, I covered last year&#8217;s CareerBuilder survey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdmproofing.com\/iym\/weblog\/2009\/09\/paycheck-to-paycheck.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now this is some encouraging news &#8230; if you enjoy financial distress. If we&#8217;re to believe CareerBuilder&#8217;s survey of 4,500 U.S. workers &#8212; and I don&#8217;t really have a great reason not to &#8212; then roughly 77 percent of us describe ourselves as living paycheck to paycheck: CareerBuilder: Nearly 8 in 10 Living Paycheck to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-statistics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Paycheck to Paycheck: Now 77 Percent<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mdmproofing.com\/iym\/weblog\/2010\/09\/77-living-paycheck\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Paycheck to Paycheck: Now 77 Percent\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Now this is some encouraging news &#8230; if you enjoy financial distress. 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