{"id":16614,"date":"2024-10-19T17:32:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T17:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=16614"},"modified":"2024-11-19T16:55:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T16:55:57","slug":"media-living-paycheck-to-paycheck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2024\/10\/19\/media-living-paycheck-to-paycheck\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: &#8220;Living paycheck to paycheck&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The &#8220;Living paycheck to paycheck&#8221; meme is a regular theme in media stories, typically to let us know how awful everything is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As noted in this thread, there is no definition of what that means, and much of it, as illustrated by the media&#8217;s own headline &#8211; is nonsense:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A lot of people insisting that I&#39;m wrong, and that there is a universally agreed upon definition of &quot;paycheck to paycheck.&quot; But interestingly, many of them defined it differently in the replies. Who knows what the people responding to the survey consider &quot;paycheck to paycheck.&quot;\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zObf0GNR7Q\">https:\/\/t.co\/zObf0GNR7Q<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Kelley K (@KelleyKga) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KelleyKga\/status\/1805670366951428302?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 25, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This headline makes clear the absurdity of claims of paycheck to paycheck lifestyle issues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"544\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-152.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-152.png 544w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-152-480x600.png 480w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-152-216x270.png 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But it gets worse &#8211; its mostly based on lines:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/11\/19\/bank-of-america-nearly-half-of-americans-live-paycheck-to-paycheck.html\">Nearly half of Americans say they live paycheck to paycheck\u2014only 30% actually do, new Bank of America data finds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does &#8220;paycheck to paycheck&#8221; mean? It has a very slippery definition to the point that it means nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,29,30,39,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fear","category-media","category-media-propaganda","category-fake-news","category-fictional-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}