Update 506: Ask Students, Is Debt Certain? Now for Something Completely Academic… Amid the impeachment trial in the Senate — with the defense just having rested its case — and unrelenting and unaddressed pandemic needs unabated in the country, we stop to look at a now-endemic economic crisis: the student debt burden. A $1.7 trillion problem, …
Update 470 — Generating Inequities:Economic Impact of COVID on Millennials For the 75 million Americans born between 1981 and 1996 — the millennial generation — the economic scars caused by COVID will last longer and do more material harm than for any other cohort. From distant or delayed classroom learning at tuition rates making education …
Update 416 —Millennial Economic Challenge:Agenda to Redress Generational Imbalance Never in the nation’s history have circumstances and public policy combined to produce an entire generation economically disadvantaged compared to — if not by — its immediate forebears. Those responsible did not intend this consequence, and many in fact have remorse and resolve. From spending priorities …
