Thread by @GenSqueeze

WTF is "The Squeeze"???

A thread...

Younger generations (#millennials, #GenX, #GenZ 👋) are working and studying harder, while being hit with higher costs, expenses and lower income than ever before.

This is a 360 degree squeeze!

Now the data can do the talking

When adjusting for inflation, people in their 20s and 30s are making LESS 📉 today than people were in the 1970s.

😲🤯😲

And their incomes are lower, despite the fact that more have post-secondary degrees today than in the 70s (which also translates into larger student debts).

And then...

There's the massive increases in housing costs.

Just want y'all to remember that tweet above: Younger people have LESS income, and a substantially larger portion of that smaller income going to shelter.

Then the big kicker...

Younger generations have inherited a future that is threatened by the very system and economy that supported past generations.

#ClimateChange looms above all our heads, and younger gens are now forced to clean up one hell of a mess!

The Squeeze is A LOT and sometimes we want to just ignore it because it's too stressful!

But it's more important than ever to recognize the problems we have so that we can actually fight for REAL solutions to create the future we want (and a better one than we've inherited).