Go ahead, say your worst about millennials. Use the word "entitlement" if you must. Talk about participation trophies, useless college degrees, money management, laziness, etc., and by all means compare them unfavorably to earlier generations. Then read the first-person piece by Michael Hobbes—at 35, the oldest of millennials—at Highline.
With a mixture of stats and individual narratives, including his own, he makes the case under a headline of "Millennials Are Screwed" that the plight of his generation is much worse, and far more complicated, than most people realize. Yes, a part of the problem is that millennials graduated into a severe recession, but that's just a small part of the story. "What we are living through now, and what the recession merely accelerated, is a historic convergence of economic maladies, many of them decades in the making."
Read the full story on Newser.com
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