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"Mention “millennial” to anyone over 40 and the word “entitlement” will come back at you within seconds, our own intergenerational game of Marco Polo." highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millennials/
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"The touchstone experience of millennials, the thing that truly defines us, is not helicopter parenting or unpaid internships or Pokémon Go. It is uncertainty. "
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"Where previous generations were able to amass years of solid experience and income in the old economy, many of us will spend our entire working lives intermittently employed in the new one."
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“Millennials feel like they can lose everything at any time [...] And, increasingly, they can.”
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"'I don’t understand why it’s so hard to do something with your life,' he tells me. The answer is brutally simple. In an economy where wages are precarious & the safety net has been hacked into ribbons, one piece of bad luck can easily become a years-long struggle..."
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"No state provides cash benefits that add up to the poverty line."
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"Forty-one percent of working millennials aren’t even eligible for retirement plans through their companies."