2016-06-22 — marketwatch.com
``Around 28% of U.S. adults have saved "zero dollars" for an emergency, according to a survey released Tuesday of 1,000 U.S. adults by personal savings website Bankrate.com carried out by Princeton Survey Research Associates International, a polling firm. When extrapolated for the entire 234.6 million U.S. adult population, that's equivalent to 66 million people. That's down from 29% last year, but up from 24% in five years ago. Another 28% of adults have saved enough money to last six months, up from 22% from last year and a six-year high; 18% had some emergency savings, but not enough for six months. Generation Xers are in the worst position of all generations: 33% of 36- to 51-year-olds haven't saved anything for an emergency.''
So in other words, those doing reasonably OK since the global financial crisis have managed to do a little more OK, while the rest are doing pretty much worse than ever.
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