How 56.5 Million Households Live: $52,000 Median Household Income in 2009 Crushed by a Decade of Debt. A Decade of Lost Wages and Financial Debt Servitude.
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t b said:
if you’re gonna use georgia as an example state, keep your expenses geared to georgia. the nation median price of a home doesn’t matter; what matters is the median price of a home in georgia.
October 29th, 2009 at 11:42 am -
t b said:
unemployment is about double the official lying govt numbers.
October 29th, 2009 at 11:43 am -
JJ said:
Where did you get this information from? No one I know makes $100,000 or even $50,000. At the height of my corp. “career” I was making $32,000 before taxes. I live in Manhattan and more than half of that went to pay rent, gas & electric, transportation, etc. And if I had anything left food. I also was a single parent. I think you are out of touch with real folks. Or the statistics you found have been “inflated”.
October 29th, 2009 at 3:46 pm -
KK said:
JJ: You think you are a pop star ? Just because you don’t know anyone making 50000 or 100000, that doesn’t mean that 20% of household income is higher than $100000.
February 28th, 2010 at 1:46 pm -
ACF said:
Maybe you didn’t read this part of the article:
“Before you start picking the budget apart, keep in mind this is only a sample.”April 20th, 2010 at 10:50 am -
Marshall Johnson said:
Everything is relative. Southern IL in a small farm town you can buy a 3 bedroom home for under 90000K. In Chicago you cannot touch a 3 bedroom home for under 250K. How do we accurately compare in a sample. I could live very well in S. IL but not well at all in Chicago area.
May 30th, 2010 at 8:43 am -
Chris said:
I feel the article is well put together, and I make around 75k (single income with stay at home dad for our son). The one part that I think may have been over looked is the rising cost in student loans that many American’s must take on in order to get over that 32k hump. That alone can be from 200-500 a month depending on the degree level and school choice.
June 15th, 2010 at 7:17 am -
kevin kwidzinski said:
i dont know why you people are ripping his budget and other things apart. the bottom line is the great usa is no more. china will be the leading manufacturer if not next year the year after. the dollar is going to crash. just look at the price of gold. we in our time are going to see the greatest depression of all time in every part of the world. when the dot com bubble burst in the early 2000′s what did the government with greenspan at the time in charge of the fed do?? dropped interest rates to 1%.instead of raising interest rates to have a recession and cleanse the system, they made it worse by letting people go out and spend like never before.we are the worlds largest debtor now. we used to be the largest creditor. 70% of the gdp is consumption we are not producing. if you continue to print money backed by nothing and producing practically nothing it will destroy the economic system. that is what’s happening. the only way to get out of it is to produce as a country.with our government i really don’t believe that will happen.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:42 am -
R sterlin said:
This article is a plain look at what we are facing, we must go back to essentials and some saving. This recession will be longer because we do not have the manufacturing base of years past. Good article.
September 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
