"If you don't have no money, your life is infinitely harder. You can't eat, you can't live where you want to live, you can't do what you want to do, you have far less freedom, you got to answer to more people."
"American households are now having to take emergency distributions from their 401K retirement accounts in order to pay their bills and pay their mortgage costs."
"Nearly 40% of those who took a hardship distribution from their 401K did so to avoid foreclosure."
"One of the reasons that I do this is to try to give some ideas and I hope that it is maybe helpful to somebody who might find themselves in a temporary tight spot."
"All of my life, I was always struggling to pay bills and keep a roof over my head."
"Over 8 million Americans are behind on rent."
"He told me the reason he went broke is because he spent all of his money helping his dad pay for his cancer treatment."
"Are we on the brink of another March 2023 moment?"
"A lack of money is a passport to misery. It is. I've seen more problems caused by lack of money."
"The scariest feeling in the world as a father is to have a hungry kid and say son, here's some food but I have no money."
"Even when my family's house got foreclosed on in East Oakland and they auctioned it off to an Asian man."
"Being broke is the best thing that can happen to you if you have the character." - Daymond John
"Eviction and credit card bills should not be happening, period."
"There still are people struggling, not everyone who may have received the third stimulus check."
"Only 44% of Americans can cover a thousand dollar expense. That's insane to me."
"Inflation makes people poorer. That's what inflation does, and it's the enemy that we need to face down."
"If everybody's pay is getting cut and the executives are losing a lot of... a lot of their pay, this is true."
"Western sanctions induced price surges are rubbing salt into a wound."
"They poured all their savings into homes that were never built."
"The clock is ticking for millions of Americans who've gotten behind on their rent payments during the pandemic."
"It's gonna take a minute in a drought when your pockets got mumps, that means nothing's going on in your life."
"I never thought I'd see myself at a pawn shop unless I was buying something, not realizing that those deals were other people's dreams there I was selling my dreams."
"One in three families of inmates reported going into debt to pay for phone calls or visitation, which is terrible."
"Nobody should have to face the spectre of bankruptcy as a consequence of doing what we were taught to do is the right way to do things."
"The main problem is that our wages have been steadily dropping for decades."
"Highest inflation in 40 years - nothing is getting cheaper."
"He repossessed her car anyway and made her sleep on the street for a week."
"For a lot of people, it's hard because they go through bankruptcies. It can make them tougher."
"Americans are pulling cash from retirement savings to pay bills."
"Financially or emotionally, that was my lowest point."
"Too many Americans still find themselves having to choose between paying rent or paying medical bills, between buying food or buying prescriptions – and nobody should have to rely on a GoFundMe or a collection jar because they’ve fallen ill."
"As inflation pushes prices higher... the poorest Americans have less cash to spend than before."
"On top of all of the financial hardship, we're going to have to contend with nature now."
"Even if we don't have, we can give sacrificially."
"Just give it all you got but you just didn't at the end of the day you're just out of money and you made the best of the situation that was provided to you."
"I know what it feels like going to bed with a headache for want of food in the stomach."
"The medical industry is really taking advantage of those who can't afford to pay for their medical bills."
"A growing number of Americans say their own financial circumstances are worsening on Biden's watch."
"I just paid for three funerals. I can't afford to buy it right now but hopefully I'll be in a better financial situation if you decide later that she's just not right for you anymore."
"Textbooks are legitimately a [__] hardship that a lot of students have to go through."
"The weakest parts of the herd get called out, they're being deprived of their capital."
"It's hard out here for a pimp and also for these hoes who trying to get that money for the rent."
"Money's not easy to come by these days, and for people to appreciate what you do enough to send a few quid is always very much appreciated."
"High inflation imposes significant hardship especially on those least able to meet the higher costs of essentials like food, housing, and transportation."
"That's real talk when you're behind on your taxes and you Pawn all your chains and they run off with your Masters and took it to Beverly Hills."
"How are they going to pay their mortgage? How they're going to pay their rent? How they're going to buy food?"
"Debt can be crippling, debt can be one of the worst things you will ever experience in your entire life."
"Getting trapped in that vicious cycle where all your money is going towards paying off high-interest debt every month to where you don't have any money left over to save is a sure-fire way of staying poor."
"I was broke as [ __ ] I had like 50 bucks in the bank."
"I don't think it's the fault of Canadians who took on mortgages at low rates in 2020 and 2021, stretching their incomes to barely afford their first family homes." - Narrator
"When you take away my money I'm poor, I can't pay the bills, lights off all of them they all got to go up because I can't afford like this."
"Diversify, diversify, diversify, that's what billionaires talk about."
"That's how I communicate to him that I don't like what he did."
"There's literally a dorm and we're struggling to pay rent."
"We were having financial difficulties, my husband had not been working, and we had a drug problem within the home."
"Someone is trying to survive in life, someone's trying to figure out how they're going to fill their fridge up, how they're going to pay some sort of bill."
"She's really hard up, ain't she? She is for a fact."
"Things happen where you go broke for a while and you gotta sell off all your cool stuff, right?"
"...I also understand that a lot of people are going through financial hardship so I didn't want to ask you to pull from your wallets instead I'm just asking you to move with me..."
"I'm out of money, like I'm tapped."
"Universal healthcare: all people have access to health services they need when and where they need them without financial hardship. Exactly, that is absolutely how it should work. You would think."
"There's a big difference between losing a job or getting hurt and spending money you don't have."
"Despite the financial hardship they were under, Molly was so thankful that she had a husband in Clay that was so good with their kids."
"Have you ever been broke? And I'm not talking about I only got a hundred dollars in my bank account. I'm talking about negative bank accounts, every last one of them, prepaid debit card broke."
"I've been so poor in my entire life that the thought of a million dollars is just as fantastical as any other fiction."
"I used to be poor like I used to not be able to afford like my $400 rent."
"We're living through the most severe cost of living crisis in history."
"The number who now say they cannot cover their basic expenses has skyrocketed up to 50 percent."
"You won't be asked to pay respect if you cannot afford it."
"...he was an angry voice for athletes rights here you have one of the best athletes in the world he comes back from the Olympics he's he lives in a trailer on food stamps."
"A majority of Americans can't afford a $1,000 expense without going into debt."
"People lose all their money, some people become destitute."
"Inflation isn't really even telling us how badly people are being hurt right now because of inflation."
"Up to 600,000 self-disconnect, lack of money a key reason, and around half had experienced a negative impact on health and mental health as a consequence."
"Having you gone was far worse than any money issues."
"I'm here because we can't afford to pay the heating bills, we had to send our kids away. I just need enough money to get my children back," Jim said.
"Financial hardship causes issues, this is not a debatable fact."
"Higher gas prices are absolutely creating a great deal of financial hardship for a lot of people."
"Medical bills, job losses, divorces are pretty common reasons for a borrower to get behind on a loan where they then get caught up later."
"Yeah, I'm tired of struggling, tired of barely making ends meet with a job that means nothing."
"A man can go wrong when he's busted."
"These fees make conditions worse and can keep them trapped in a cycle of debt."
"The truth is that these same credit cards also have a very dangerous side that has led to financial hardship for millions of people."
"Truth is, we like where we are, and another hard truth is, after all the financial devastation my son had caused us over the last several years combined with the hardship of such a drastic move, we really could not afford to move again so quickly even if we had wanted to."
"Just financially, it was hard for a long time."
"We have to have the same compassion we would have for any woman who's in a situation where, whether they created it or not, financially they're just able to make it on their own."
"If you cannot afford rent right now, the number one thing I would suggest is speaking to your landlord and trying to figure out some type of agreement."