With unemployment low and wages rising, the struggle for basic necessities like food should be easing. But those on the front lines of feeding the hungry say they are seeing the opposite.
I am also GenX and hate to break it to you, but we may be the last generation who had that reasonable assurance that if you were willing to make changes, go to school, you could get a better job, and if willing to hop jobs often for better pay, could work up some ladder and be well off.
I don’t think my kids got the same deal. Like we didn’t get pensions but our parents did. We got no guarantees but an environment of opportunities, that has flattened out a lot.
I am also GenX and hate to break it to you, but we may be the last generation who had that reasonable assurance that if you were willing to make changes, go to school, you could get a better job, and if willing to hop jobs often for better pay, could work up some ladder and be well off.
I don’t think my kids got the same deal. Like we didn’t get pensions but our parents did. We got no guarantees but an environment of opportunities, that has flattened out a lot.
No, Millennials will do better than us.
Hope springs eternal in the hearts of men.