{"id":24933,"date":"2015-11-04T09:11:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T07:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=24933"},"modified":"2015-11-04T09:11:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T07:11:46","slug":"america-is-full-of-high-earning-poor-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/04\/america-is-full-of-high-earning-poor-people\/","title":{"rendered":"America is full of high-earning poor people"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/poor-rich.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24934\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/04\/america-is-full-of-high-earning-poor-people\/poor-rich\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/poor-rich.png?fit=650%2C426&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"650,426\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"poor rich\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/poor-rich.png?fit=650%2C426&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24934\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/poor-rich-500x328.png?resize=500%2C328&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"poor rich\" width=\"500\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/poor-rich.png?resize=500%2C328&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/poor-rich.png?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/520414\/the-high-earning-poor\/\">America is full of high-earning poor people<\/a>&#8221; is an interesting article, with lots of charts and statistics, on how poor even high earning households are in America. \u00a0The problem is, of course, not unique to the United States.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The fact that the average upper-middle-class household has just $12,200 in non-pension financial wealth is disturbing. 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