Aram Zucker-Scharff

“The underemployment rate of recent college graduates now stands at 46 percent, compared with about 35 percent for college graduates as a whole.”

– Are the Job Prospects of Recent College Graduates Improving?

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“The report claims that low- to middle-income workers have been hit hard in the capital because rents are around 50% higher than in the rest of the UK. […] Rent now accounts for about 41% of their incomes.

It warns that ‘endies’ who do not own a home have almost no chance of buying one. ‘There are now only three boroughs – Tower Hamlets, Newham and Barking and Dagenham – where home ownership is potentially affordable for two people earning that borough’s median wage,’ the report says.”

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– ‘Endies’: Employed with No Disposable Income are struggling in London.  Centre for London report says a million workers can hardly make ends meet and feel politically disenchanted.

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