Average blue-collar household in US only retains 20-25 percent of its income after debts and taxes

"So while one in seven US citizens has a debt collector on their tails, and whereas the average blue-collar household only retains 20-25 percent of its income after debts and taxes..." (page 14).

Dinyar Godrej, "Debt - a global scam," New Internationalist, (2013): 14.

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