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What are young people spending more on, relative to 1984?

Health, housing, and retirement saving. And to a lesser extent, education and child care.

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A little surprised to see education and child care taking up only a slightly larger share here.
I guess only a relatively few young people go to grad school, and fewer have kids these days.
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The primary reason being that Bernie's young core supporters, while not always THE wokest, are fairly woke! And pretty diverse.
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