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leptonstoday at 6:52 AM1 replyview on HN

What percentage of Americans do you think live paycheck to paycheck?


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renewiltordtoday at 8:12 AM

Well, the annual death rate is roughly 1 in every 100 and paychecks are every 2 weeks, the death rate every 2 weeks is 4 bps. So 99.96% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.

But otherwise I think Matt Darling has a piece on Slow Boring that should help inform you as to the state of the US.

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