It Sucks to Be 33

Jeanna Smialek, who covers the U.S. economy for The Times, will be 33 in a few weeks; she is part of a cohort born in 1990 and 1991 that makes up the peak of America’s population.
At every life stage, that microgeneration has stretched a system that was often too small to accommodate it, leaving its members — so-called peak millennials — with outsize economic power but also a fight to get ahead.
Guest: Jeanna Smialek (nytimes.com/by/jeanna-smialek), a U.S. economy correspondent for The New York Times.
Background reading:
• When millennials gripe that they get blamed for everything, the accusersmight actually be onto something (nytimes.com/2024/03/02/business/economy/33-yea…).
• Millennials have the children,but boomers have the houses (nytimes.com/2024/02/01/realestate/empty-nests-…).
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