that's true to some extent, but at this point it's mostly a meme (at least the 60% number was)
> In 2023, 54 percent of adults said they had set aside money for three months of expenses in an emergency savings or “rainy day” fund—unchanged from 2022 but down from a high of 59 percent of adults in 2021.
That’s way higher than I’d have guessed. Maybe there is some sort of bimodal distribution happening there. Half the pop is flat broke the other has multiple months of buffer
> In 2023, 54 percent of adults said they had set aside money for three months of expenses in an emergency savings or “rainy day” fund—unchanged from 2022 but down from a high of 59 percent of adults in 2021.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/2023-repor...
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https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/paycheck-to-paycheck-and-five-...