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Why middle age poverty feels like personal failure

I'm thirty-five and still living paycheck to paycheck despite having a college degree and I'm starting to think the American dream was a lie they told people like me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You're confronting the gap between societal promises about education and effort with the reality of persistent financial insecurity.

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