Apparently this is a reprint from NYT article over here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/magazine/its-official-the-boomerang-kids-wont-leave.html#
I'm not going to shame millennials for moving back in with their parents. I got lucky to get a job in 2007 just prior to the financial collapse a year later. If I graduated just a year later I would have been screwed. Even despite having a job I still lived with my parents for several years after graduation because I was feeling horrid about economy in general and because I wanted to save money. My girlfriend was not so lucky. She has BA in Anthropology and Master's in teaching and she also has special ed endorsement. Yet, she still works as a teaching assistant at $12 an hour because she can't find anything better. There is nothing out there for her. She keeps applying, from time to time she gets interviews, but 3 years after getting her Master's teaching degree she still can't get a teaching job. Millenials are truly facing difficulties not seen since great depression, and yes, I do think it's almost as bad. American's standard of living is rapidly declining. I have a number of friends who are working part time jobs because they can't find anything better, and even those who do have jobs are struggling to make a living. They're either upside down on their condo, struggling to make car payments, having to take on roommates, get help from family, etc, etc, etc... There is a generational divide that some people just do not see because neither they, nor their friends and family are affected by it.
However, I went through the slides on NYT website and I'm going to have to say WTF on the slide #12:
Lila Ash, 24, Washington Heights, N.Y.
Degree: B.F.A., painting, Rhode Island School of Design. Career goal: Cartoonist. Current job: Decorative finisher for an interior designer. Student loans: More than $25,000.
My moms happy Im home. She gave me her room, and my sister has the other bedroom. She sleeps on the couch. My mom likes having us around: She cooks all the time and bakes all the time, and right now shes making dinner, and she is really supportive. Shes helping me find a class where I can learn how to do Adobe Creative Suite and get certified so I can get a job that makes real money. Shes also newly unemployed, so she likes to cook and stuff to keep busy.
Way to go kicking your mom out of her bedroom and making her sleep on the couch. WTF? And shouldn't you be looking for those Adobe Creative Suite classes instead of making your mom? Unfortunately a few bad apples like her put the whole generation in the negative light, making it especially easy to paint them as slackers and spoiled entitled kids. In reality, most are not like her.