Aram Zucker-Scharff

pewresearch:

About four-in-ten of those younger than 30 (43%) say there are plenty of jobs in their local communities, but just 27% say good jobs are plentiful. Among older age groups, there is less of a disparity in views of the availability of jobs …

Only Gen Xers Have Gotten Richer Since the Recession:
The onetime slackers are doing just fine

The surprising truth about downward mobility in US higher education:

In most developed countries, education builds from generation to generation. But in the US, almost 1 in 4 young adults has less education than his or her parents.

When it comes to generational changes in education America is terrible. AND It’s getting WORSE. Oh and guess who is bearing the brunt of the ever widening doom-gyre that is America? Millennials. 

“”Boomers refuse to go away.””

– American workers are older than ever.