Quote from a529612:
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- About 1 in 5 Americans in working families can't afford basic needs...
Working?! ...how about retired... last week I sent my retired father (on a carpenter's union pension and S.S.) $500 so that he could get caught up on his past-due utilities' bill and to have some $$ for the upcomming bills -- and winter has yet to begin.
that's just poor personal finance. $2m = $100,000 in interest annually in a freaking CDQuote from Nanook:
"Just a generation ago, a person with $2 million or more in liquid assets would have had enough for a secure retirement. But not today. Combine longer life expectancies and the rising costs of health care, food, transportation and property, and you have financial challenges ahead for the mMillionaire (middle-class Millionaire)."
http://finance.yahoo.com/focus-reti...Unable-to-Retire?mod=retirement-post-spending
Quote from a529612:
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- About 1 in 5 Americans in working families can't afford basic needs, and many are scraping to get by on insufficient income and government aid, policy researchers conclude in a report released Wednesday.
Quote from Hook N. Sinker:
Are they so poor that they can not clean a house? Are they so poor that they can not sell newspapers at the store? Are there no lawns that need to be mowed? Is there no snow to shovel?
I live in a country that is full of work.
Opportunities come to me disguised as problems.
Maybe I write that in computer terms:
Opportunities == problems;
Quote from a529612:
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- About 1 in 5 Americans in working families can't afford basic needs, and many are scraping to get by on insufficient income and government aid, policy researchers conclude in a report released Wednesday.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/sto...153-4477-96DE-9CEA8CA63DCB}&dist=MostReadHome