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82% Of Americans Could No Longer Handle an Emergency Costing $500

The lockdowns and quarantines during the COVID-19 pandemic have been so devastating to Americans’ finances that many people, unable to work because of the rules, are living in poverty. One-fifth of people making $100,000 a year were already living paycheck to paycheck in February 2020, ZeroHedge reports. But now, a new survey shows that 82% of Americans are so broke that they wouldn’t have $500 to draw upon, were they to have an emergency. Besides the shutdowns keeping businesses...