Are You Living Paycheck to Paycheck?

If you are an American reading this, then it’s about a 50-50 chance that you are living paycheck to paycheck. Yahoo Finance did a survey that found that a whopping 49% of respondents were living paycheck to paycheck. Read that again. Almost half of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. I knew that there were many Americans living paycheck to paycheck, but coming across this article made my heart sink. We can fix this.  

First, let’s look at why almost half of the country is living paycheckto paycheck. Then, let’s work through how tonotlive paycheck to paycheck. Here are the reasons that the people who participated in Yahoo Finance’s survey reported for why they are living paycheck to paycheck:

They don’t make enough money.For the person that feels that they are living paycheck to paycheck because they don’t make enough money: you have one of two options…