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Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage
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A new report from community finance platform SoLo reveals that living paycheck to paycheck is no longer confined to lower-wage earners. Despite earning respectable salaries some well into six figures many middle-class Americans find themselves short of ready cash to handle unplanned expenses. SoLo surveyed 2,000 adults and found that one in seven cash-poor Americans earns more than $75,000 a year.
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