nearly 24% of all households are classified as living paycheck to paycheck this year…That share is slightly higher than last year…
nearly 24% of all households are classified as living paycheck to paycheck this year…That share is slightly higher than last year…
With that wording, is it not possible that they have savings just that their savings isn’t growing?
In either the article’s definition or mine I don’t think the folks that meet the definitions have savings. Both definitions have and exhaustion of money component before the next paycheck. If they have funds in savings, they haven’t exhausted their funds, so they aren’t really living “paycheck to paycheck”.