I've been looking over usafacts.org, amazing website!

Wow there is so much great facts at this website.

- The median annual wage is 36,200 (summary page 33).
- Those who make between 8,000 and 31,000 a year fall in the second 20% of society, or put another way, from 21 to 40%.  They have $42,000 in income, pay $7600 in taxes (summary page 35).
-  Those in the second 20% claim $38206 of disposable income, yet consume 50,750 dollars worth (summary page 38).  Only the top 20% have more disposable income then consumption.  (summary page 38).
- 29.8% of the people are obese (summary page 39)
-The second 20% have $145,000 in assets and 32,000 in debt, meaning that us minimum wage earners have an average net worth of over $112,000!  (summary page 47).

Consuming roughly 50,000 worth on a minimum wage paycheck is not even close to my experience. Neither is having over a hundred grand in net worth.  How do you all do it?

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