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More Than Half of Americans Have Less Than $1,000 to Their Name (esquire.com)
11 points by joyce 3805 days ago
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This has no real merit. The numbers were Conducted Online by Google Consumer Surveys where 518 people responded. Likely an inaccurate representation of Half the population of America.
I'd be curious to compare that number to the rest of the world.