Friday, February 17, 2017

This Is One Of The Big Reasons Why So Many Families Are Feeling Extreme Financial Stress

This Is One Of The Big Reasons Why So Many Families Are Feeling Extreme Financial Stress
"When the cost of living rises faster than paychecks do year after year, eventually that becomes a very big problem.  
For quite some time I have been writing about the shrinking middle class, and one of the biggest culprits is inflation.  
Image result for inflationEvery month, tens of millions of American families struggle to pay the bills, and most of them don’t even understand the economic forces that are putting so much pressure on them.  
The United States never had a persistent, ongoing problem with inflation until the debt-based Federal Reserve system was introduced in 1913.  
Since that time, we have had non-stop inflation and the U.S. dollar has lost more than 98 percent of its value.  
If our paychecks were increasing faster than inflation this wouldn’t be a problem, but in recent years this has definitely not been the case for most Americans.
And unfortunately inflation is starting to accelerate once again
In fact, it is being reported that inflation rose at the fastest pace in four years in January…
The prices Americans pay for goods and services surged in January by the largest amount in four years, mostly reflecting a rebound in the cost of gasoline that’s taking a bigger chunk out of household incomes.
The consumer price index, or cost of living, rose by a seasonally adjusted 0.6% in January, the government said Wednesday.
Meanwhile, our incomes have been incredibly stagnant.  
In fact, we just learned that median household income did not go up at all during 2016..."
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