Noreen Malone illuminates some statistics on the plight of today's twentysomethings:
The rate of poverty among young adults is just about the same as that of New York City, one in five. And it's a cohort that has the worst rate of unemployment since the Second World War. Just 55.3 percent of people ages 16–29 are employed, compared with 67.3 percent in 2000.
We (sorry, this feels personal!) are more likely to delay major life decisions as a result, it seems. The median age of marriage has crept up by about a year since 2006. The marriage rate was at a record low in the population at large, as well as young adults specifically. And even though the number of women between 20 and 34 increased by about a million between 2008 and 2010, the number of children born to women in that age range dropped by 200,000. Instead of getting married and moving out, people are living at home. Mobility among college graduates is also at a post-WWII nadir, and a whopping 25 percent more young people live at home than at the outset of the recession.
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