{"id":1982,"date":"2011-02-07T08:23:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T14:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdmproofing.com\/iym\/weblog\/?p=1982"},"modified":"2011-02-05T11:54:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T17:54:27","slug":"harris-27-of-americans-have-no-personal-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mdmproofing.com\/iym\/weblog\/2011\/02\/harris-27-of-americans-have-no-personal-savings\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris: 27% of Americans Have No Personal Savings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a money-stats junkie like me, you live for figures like these from this recent Harris Poll:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article\">PR Newswire: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/number-of-americans-reporting-no-personal-or-retirement-savings-rises-115088839.html\" target=\"_blank\">More Americans Report No Personal or Retirement Savings<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Amazing, I know. Even though our economy just surged through a dotGov-sponsored Recovery Summer&trade;, it seems that as of November, 2010, <b>fewer<\/b> of us reported having any personal or retirement savings.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one of the survey&#8217;s more salient points to consider, if you&#8217;re a Gen Xer (as I am):<\/p>\n<div class=\"blurb\">Generationally, one-in-four (25%) Baby Boomers (aged 46-64) have no retirement savings, with 22% of Matures (aged 65 and over) stating the same.  Gen Xers (aged 34-45) are struggling with more immediate issues; 32% have no personal savings.<\/div>\n<p>When one in three 34-to-45-year-olds reports having <b>no<\/b> personal savings, then you know our consume-it-all economic setup is working precisely as designed.  And as one of the accompanying tables shows, the same percentage of Gen Xers report having no retirement savings.<\/p>\n<p>Couple this sort of data with that from other late-2010 surveys &#8212; CareerBuilder, for instance, found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdmproofing.com\/iym\/weblog\/2010\/09\/77-living-paycheck\/\">77 percent<\/a> of us survive paycheck-to-paycheck, even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdmproofing.com\/iym\/weblog\/2010\/07\/100k-paycheck-to-paycheck\/\">$100k earners<\/a> &#8212; and the picture that emerges is downright scary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a money-stats junkie like me, you live for figures like these from this recent Harris Poll: PR Newswire: More Americans Report No Personal or Retirement Savings Amazing, I know. Even though our economy just surged through a dotGov-sponsored Recovery Summer&trade;, it seems that as of November, 2010, fewer of us reported having any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saving","category-statistics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gen Xers Don&#039;t Save<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"November 2010 Harris Poll finds that one in three Gen Xers report having zero personal savings.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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