Put the pieces together. People are broke, angry, told they can not work until July or later and are pushing back.
It's not news that Americans are terrible at saving. We talk about it year after year after year. New to the 2016 conversation, though, is the fact that just 37% of Americans could pay for a $500 emergency using money from a savings account. The other two-thirds would have to resort to cutting...
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According to a brand new survey from Bankrate.com,
just 37% of Americans have enough savings to pay for a $500 or $1,000 emergency. The other 63% would have to resort to measures like cutting back spending in other areas (23%), charging to a credit card (15%) or borrowing funds from friends and family (15%) in order to meet the cost of the unexpected event.
If the economy has improved since the Great Recession, then why are nearly half of Americans unprepared for a $400 emergency expense?
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Author Neal Gabler
reported on the work of one economist, who concluded that in the event of a job loss, "a family in the middle quintile, with an average income of roughly $50,000, could continue its spending for ... six days." This finding is scary, and it isn't much better at the next income level. "Even in the second-highest quintile, a family could maintain its normal consumption for only 5.3 months,"
What happens when people already on the financial edge lose their incomes?
Half of American adults report that either they or someone in their household has lost a job or income due to the impact of the coronavirus. Marist College surveyed 1,008 adults across the United States by phone in a poll sponsored by NPR and PBS NewsHour. The results, released on Wednesday...
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The governors actions of keeping businesses shut down could destroy the states economy if this plan remains in place.
I was nowhere near this location with no intentions of participating.
Did this event:
Mainers swarmed outside the Augusta State House and Blaine House Saturday afternoon to urge the Governor to ease up on coronavirus restrictions.
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result in this response?
Republican leaders said a gradual reopening plan from the Democratic governor 'imposes an arbitrary set of rules for our businesses with no information on the scientific data used to create them.'
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This is a cute protest song written by a cute blonde.
This shows how wearing a mask can be done.. badly... for medical reasons.
The governor wanted everyone to wear a face mask. Did the governors order say exactly where on the body to place the face masks? I am not sure. This girl wore 2 masks hoping to double her safety by using not just 1 but 2 of those anti-virus devices at the protest.
One of the best forms of civil disobedience is to do exactly what you are told to do but not the way you were expected to do it.