The 30% housing rule, the emergency fund, the life cover multiple and the 4% rule — where each one actually comes from.
Four numbers you are measured against. Each is repeated as though it were a finding, and their histories are not the same.
The 30% housing rule was a federal program threshold raised from 25% by legislation in the early 1980s.
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