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More Middle-Class Americans Sell Plasma Amid Financial Pressure
In 2025, U.S. donors sold $4.7 billion worth of plasma, aiding household finances amid rising costs and job instability, with much plasma exported globally.
- Plasma donation, historically more common among lower-income individuals, is increasingly attracting a wider range of donors, including suburban residents and working professionals coping with rising living costs.
- Plasma is essential for producing treatments for immune disorders and other serious medical conditions, and global demand for it remains high.
- The United States supplies most of the world’s plasma products, and federal regulations permit individuals to donate up to twice a week under established health and safety guidelines.
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More Middle-Class Americans Sell Plasma Amid Financial Pressure
NEW YORK — (VINnews) – An increasing number of middle-class Americans are selling their blood plasma to help cover everyday expenses, according to a report by NBC News. The report highlights how plasma donation, once more commonly associated with lower-income communities, is now drawing people from a broader economic spectrum, including suburban residents and working […]
The Independent
The Independent (US)Hard-up Americans are selling their blood to cope with the cost of living crisis
Over 200,000 people a day are exchanging their plasma for cash across the country, up 30 percent in four years, according to new research
NBC Dallas-Fort Worth
Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make ends meet
Inside a suburban Philadelphia strip mall, between the Hair Cuttery and a Citizens Bank, a dozen people lay on black ergonomic beds a few feet apart, hooked up through a needle in the crook of their arms to machines pumping blood out of their veins. They were there to sell their plasma in exchange for $65 on a prepaid debit card. Ian Pleasant, 43, had come that morning to get some extra money for toilet paper and pet food. “I’m making enough mon…
More than 200,000 people a day attend paid donation centers in the United States, in a market that generated $4.7 billion in 2024.
Over 200,000 Middle-Class Americans Selling Plasma Daily
More middle-class Americans are turning to the plasma industry as a source of extra income, fueling rapid growth in a business that now stretches into suburbs, college towns, and shopping centers nationwide. Across the United States, an estimated 200,000 people a day sell plasma, according to research cited by Georgetown University professor Peter Jaworski. In 2024 alone, Americans sold roughly 62.5 million liters of plasma, generating about $4.…
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