Show HN: The bottom 50% of U.S. households are short after essentials (BLS data)

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Every year from 2000 to 2024 uses that year’s published BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey table, which ranks U. S. households into five income groups (quintiles). From it come income before and after taxes, the income cut-offs between groups, household size, spending on six categories (including education), and benefit income. Breaks in the dataBefore 2004, BLS income figures cover only households that fully reported their income; from 2004 BLS fills in missing income.

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