Once upon a time the United States had the largest and most vibrant middle class in the history of the world, but now the middle class is steadily being eroded. The middle class became a minority of the population for the first time ever in 2015, and just recently I wrote about a new survey that showed that 78 percent of all full-time workers in the United States live paycheck to paycheck at least part of the time. But most people still want to live the American Dream, and so they are going into tremendous amounts of debt in a desperate attempt to live that kind of a lifestyle.
According to the Federal Reserve, the average U. S. household is now $137,063 in debt, and that figure is more than double the median household income…
The average American household carries $137,063 in debt, according to the Federal Reserve’s latest numbers.
Yet the U. S. Census Bureau reports that the median household income was just $59,039 last year, suggesting that many Americans are living beyond their means.
As a nation, we are completely and utterly drowning in debt. U. S. consumers are now nearly 13 trillion dollars in debt overall, and many will literally spend the rest of their lives making debt payments.
This post was published at The Economic Collapse Blog on November 21st, 2017.
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