10 Thursday AM Reads
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There Is Growing Segregation In Millennial Wealth Baby boomers and Gen Xers have faced their fair share of calamities stagflation, the double-dip recession of the 1980s, disco but millennials have had it really rough. Millennials who got college degrees exited school deep in debt and entered a job market ravaged by the Great Recession. Millennials who didn’t get college degrees found it harder to get a well-paying, blue-collar job, after trade and automation closed avenues that past generations had used to get to the middle class. Child-rearing and first-home-buying years interrupted by a pandemic, all the while slogged through an economy muddied by growing inequality, stagnation and a fading American dream. (NPR)