Zogby: 70% of Americans believe they're 1-3 paychecks away from poverty

[brentspeak]

This is all because Wall Street's insatiable thirst for profits has dictated both absolutely suicidal trade policy and ruinous financialization and debt servitude.

We need an FDR, like now.

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE5B052E20091201

Most Americans not confident about financial future
Tue Dec 1, 2009 4:48pm EST

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - There may small glimmers of hope in the economy but most Americans are not confident about their financial future and many think they are already poor, according to a new survey.

More than 70 percent of Americans questioned in a Zogby International poll said they could imagine becoming poor or already think they are.

"What they're saying is that they're one, two or three paychecks away from poverty," said John Zogby, the CEO of polling company. "This has a huge implication."