39% of Americans worry they can't pay the bills

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

New York
CNN
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Many Americans regularly worry they won’t be able to make ends meet.

Nearly four in ten (39%) of US adults say they worry most or all of the time that their family’s income won’t be enough to meet expenses, according to a new CNN poll. That’s up from 28% who expressed those concerns in December 2021, and it’s similar to the numbers seen during the Great Recession (37%).

To cope, significant shares of Americans said they are adding side jobs, cutting down on driving and putting more expenses on credit cards.

Even higher percentages of Latino (52%) and Black (46%) Americans said they’re worried most or all of the time about making ends meet, according to the poll.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/23/business/inflation-cost-of-living-cnn-poll/index.html

[Goodheart]

1. That's always been the case.

[quaint]

3. But not usually higher than in the depression.

[Self Esteem]

11. Not really.

This from 2017:

https://www.pymnts.com/news/financial-inclusion/2017/nearly-half-of-all-americans-have-a-tough-time-paying-bills/

[Bluethroughu]

2. Tax rebate to all Americans for monoplizing and gouging.

Paid for by an anti-goug tax on corporations.

$10,000 per American.

There was more PPP money given out for business.

[blm]

4. As always. Corporate greed keeps wages low and prices high.

And Republicans refuse to stand with Democrats to change that.

[WarGamer]

5. must be topic #1 of any campaign

[Marcus IM]

6. Envy of the world?

What a joke to constantly be told that America is the greatest nation on earth.

I can't think that there is a single developed nation that would like to have American ranking on global social indices. Not one.

We need to stop this gaslighting.

We can't fix problems if we don't acknowledge their existence.

[MichMan]

10. The number of people from all over the world crossing the southern border daily would tend to indicate otherwise

[Marcus IM]

12. Are they "developed" OECD nations?

Only 3 Latin American countries are OECD members. All 3 don't have mass migration to the USA.

Anecdotes from victims of US policy don't make a serious argument.

[MichMan]

16. People are coming from all over the world

There have been dramatic increases in the number of migrants from the world’s most populous countries: Between fiscal 2019 and 2023, the number of migrants from China and India grew more than elevenfold and fivefold, respectively. And some countries that previously sent negligible numbers of migrants to the U.S. border have seen staggering increases. In fiscal 2019, the total number of people from the northwest African nation of Mauritania apprehended at the border was 20. Four years later, that number was 15,260. For migrants from Turkey, the number went from 60 to 15,430. The list goes on: More than 50 nationalities saw apprehensions multiplied by a hundred or more.

China offers one of the most illustrative examples of this new era of global migration. Between 2014 and 2022, the average number of Chinese citizens who crossed the southern border without papers in a given year was around 1,400. In 2023, that number grew to 24,050.This would not have been possible without transcontinental smuggling networks like the ones used by Wei and his son. Though these networks have existed in some form for decades, they have grown dramatically in scale and organization.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/demographics-migration-us-are-rapidly-shifting-s-change-rcna149623

What US policy victimized Chinese citizens ?

[The Wandering Harper]

7. all the signage at the supermarket gleefully declaring thousands of prices slashed

reads like a confession to me
yep we fleeced you suckers but good

and they're still higher than they were

[GPV]

8. We're always on the edge of disaster

[Elessar Zappa]

9. Joe (and Kamala) should come out in favor of a large tax rebate.

I’m talking at least $2000. It won’t pass, of course, but it would be great to campaign on this.

[ViewObsessed]

13. Kamala will be way better for the economy than TSF!

[DET]

15. Of Course

That pretty much goes without saying to anyone on this board. The problem is that the average American has a totally skewed perception of reality. It boggles my mind that Trump has convinced them that he is their economic savior. We really need to be much more vocal in touting the accomplishments of the current administration and emphasizing that the next administration will be even better.

[XRubicon]

14. Donald Trump and Elon Musk will save us!

Yeah... no.