{"id":1241,"date":"2020-03-13T06:44:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T12:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2020-02-11T09:23:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T15:23:48","slug":"statistics-about-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/statistics-about-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistics about Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>58% of Americans have less than $1,000 in savings: GOBankingRates<\/li><li>40% of Americans would struggle to come up with $400 for an unexpected bill: MetLife<\/li><li>American debt in 2018\/2019 averaged $136,365, and totaled $13.95 trillion: NerdWallet<\/li><li>Americans have an average of $6,849 in credit card debt: NerdWallet<\/li><li>The Median (half above, half below) household income for Americans in 2018 was $63,179: US Census<\/li><li>12.8 million children lived in poverty in 2017, which was 17.5%. That was a decrease from 2016 when 18% lived in poverty: US Census<\/li><li>45% of Americans believe in the existence of ghosts and demons: YouGov<\/li><li>40% of Americans don&#8217;t wash their hands after going to the bathroom at home.<\/li><li>Super Mario Brothers is the most popular and the most famous video game: YouGov<\/li><li>The most popular sandwich in America is grilled cheese (79% say it is their favorite) followed by grilled chicken tied with turkey (75%). Roast beef comes in next at 71%.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>58% of Americans have less than $1,000 in savings: GOBankingRates 40% of Americans would struggle to come up with $400 for an unexpected bill: MetLife American debt in 2018\/2019 averaged $136,365, and totaled $13.95 trillion: NerdWallet Americans have an average of $6,849 in credit card debt: NerdWallet The Median (half above, half below) household income [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1242,"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}