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The Young and The Feckless: Millennials and the Morality of Money

Social Commentary post by J Maureen Henderson on April 26, 2010 - 12:33pm; tagged budgeting, debt, finance, generation y, hipsters, jobs, millennials, student loans, The Young and The Feckless, unemployment, USA Today.
Although dour, USA Today's stats-heavy piece on Gen Y's financial woes isn't anything we haven't heard before. We're the first generation in a century likely to end up monetarily worse off than our parents. Student debt load has increased 24% since 2004. 37% of 18-29 year-olds are underemployed or unemployed. And the beat goes on and on.

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