Sentence examples for scant savings from inspiring English sources

With just Social Security and scant savings, many people are going to need to resort to other sources of income, and their homes may be their best option.

A little later, living on scant savings in the red-light district of Seattle, he modelled himself on the crooner Cole.

Brian Chappelle, a mortgage consultant, said loans to people like the Alvas, with modest incomes and scant savings, could turn out to be risky.

Driving the high mortgage debt and the boom in home sales here, and around the country, has been the proliferation of mortgages that have made it possible for people with poor credit, scant savings and modest incomes to buy homes.

Mr. Bloomberg said the pension proposal would have provided scant savings because it would force the city to pay 8percentt interest on the delayed $300 million in payments when it is often possible to borrow now at 1.5percentt interest.

Dean Price's bible is the Depression-era classic Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill; another character sees her scant savings vanish into a scheme run by the "founder of the Mastermind Forum [and] onetime associate of the motivational speaker Anthony Robbins".

Do I put less money into my already scant retirement savings?

The weaker dollar hurts American companies that depend on foreign financing because of scant domestic saving.

In many developing countries, the poor still have scant access to savings and insurance products.

The Federal Reserve in its obsessive -- and thus far futile -- quest to stimulate economic growth and job creation continues to keep interest rates at near zero, which means there is scant payoff on savings.

But evidence of significant savings is scant, and there is increasing concern that electronic records have actually added to costs by making it easier to bill more for some services.