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Both Hilary and Trump screwed America.."he is going to betray them"
yep, and that the Trash voters think Repugs are really going to help them economically proves irrevocably they are ing ignorant, simply don't have clue how the VRWC 40 year strategy has ed them hard.
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The statistics are quite shocking. The poor are suffering—more than 46 million Americans live at or below the poverty level[4], which is $23,201 for a family of four. That's $5,800 per person;
but a far larger group of 138 million people (nearly 40% of American households)—many of whom had considered themselves part of the middle class—are living paycheck to paycheck[5].
And, according to a Pew Foundation survey[6], “nearly a quarter of Americans (24%) say they had trouble putting food on the table in the past 12 month revealing a painful level of deprivation and family trauma despite the U.S. being the richest country in the world. Our level of deprivation is closer to that in Indonesia or Greece rather than Britain or Canada.”
Furthermore, financial security for the future, often referred as the “American Dream,” is increasingly out of reach for many millions.
This is especially true for those approaching retirement—a goal that has been undermined, even destroyed, by the economic crash of 2007, which robbed so many of what small wealth they had. Over the long run, a major culprit has been the replacement of pensions by the grossly inadequate 401K model, which is forcing millions of Americans to keep on working, or find marginal jobs to help pay the bills as they age, or in some cases fall into poverty, living only on a meager Social Security stipend.
the burden of paying for education, healthcare and retirement has increasingly shifted from corporations and the government onto the backs of individuals and families
“The specter of downward mobility in retirement is a looming reality for both middle- and higher-income workers.
Almost half of middle-class workers, 49 percent, will be poor or near poor in retirement, living on a food budget of about $5 a day.”
She adds, “Seventy-five percent of Americans nearing retirement age in 2010 had less than $30,000[9] in their retirement accounts.”
http://www.alternet.org/economy/4-plagues-getting-handle-coming-apocalypse
