Part of spreading savings and credit associations is convincing beggars and widows and prostitutes and street youth to save amounts near $0.25 per week … Convincing subsistence farmers that they can subsist on a little less right now so that they can invest in better crops some four months later. It's hard sometimes to cast this vision to the very poor, that they can live with more purpose and greater insurance and brighter future by saving now. The very poor, however, are not the only ones who lack the vision to save.
Consider these numbers from Harper's Index, December 2008:
Percentage of Americans who say they live "paycheck to paycheck": 47
Percentage of those making over $100,000 per year who say this: 21
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