{"id":1687,"date":"2013-01-07T11:45:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T15:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silver-investor.com\/blog\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2018-06-10T10:57:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T10:57:33","slug":"generation-y-wakes-up-from-the-american-dream-faces-an-american-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themorganreport.com\/blog\/generation-y-wakes-up-from-the-american-dream-faces-an-american-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Generation Y Wakes Up From The American Dream, Faces An American Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three and a half years after the worst recession since the Great Depression, the earnings and employment gap between those in the under-35 population and their parents and grandparents threatens to unravel the American dream of each generation doing better than the last. We have noted a number of times that these divides are growing and warned of the social tension this could create and, as Bloomberg notes, it does not appear to be getting any better, Generation Y professionals entering the workforce are finding careers that once were gateways to high pay and upwardly mobile lives turning into detours and dead ends. &#8220;This generation will be permanently depressed and will be on a lower path of income for probably all of their life &#8211; and at least the next 10 years,&#8221; as middle-income jobs are disappearing. A 2009 law school graduate sums it up rather succinctly: &#8220;I had a lot of faith in the system, the mythology that if you work really hard you can achieve anything, and the stock market always goes up. It was pretty na\u00efve on my part.&#8221;<br \/>\nRead rest of article&#8230;.  <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/Wgt5Sy\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/Wgt5Sy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three and a half years after the worst recession since the Great Depression, the earnings and employment gap between those in the under-35 population and their parents and grandparents threatens to unravel the American dream of each generation doing better than the last. 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