8 Financial Realities That Are Making Americans' Lives Terrible | The Financial Diet

Chelsea breaks down the unfortunate truths about the financial system in America, and the unfair realities no one is likely to tell you about. She also talks about how Americans waste money here: https://youtu.be/fjo7Ut7Acrg.

Most Americans living paycheck-to-paycheck:
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/24/most-americans-live-paycheck-to-paycheck
.html

America less mobile socially than we thought:
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/02/14/americans-overestima
te-social-mobility-in-their-country

How we punish the poor:
https://talkpoverty.org/2014/10/07/punished-for-being-poor/

Erin on the crazy stuff rich people do:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGrcWj2FJYc

Taxes on the rich used to be way higher:
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/nov/15/bernie-s/income-tax-rates-were-90-percent-under-eisenhower-/

Why is college so expensive?:
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/09/why-is-college-soexpensive-in-america/569884/

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