CNBC: 50% of parents financially support adult children ( $1,474 a month)

LINK: 50% of parents financially support adult children, report finds. Here's how much it costs them

Original Study: Percentage of parents financially supporting adult children reaches a three-year high

Step One:
Empower a Fed that encourages people to spend, spend, spend, (not save, save save)

Step Two:
When the younger generation complains “all that spending has driven up prices faster than wages” mock them. Tell them how hard it was in the 80s.

Step Three:
Shell-out an average of $1,474 helping them even after they are adults.
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Wouldn’t it be better if we just eliminated all three steps?

I guess I can see why.
(Some folks are raking in the income.)

At the bottom it mentions 1 out of 3 young adults still live at home. They might not be charity cases, yet can be seen, or counted as such.

from '87 to '90 I can remember rents being around $850 a month for what I liked. That’s two NET paychecks. Just for the roof. Then I’d be living alone instead of with my rather large family.

I found the last paragraph in the first article to be sad. But they’re comparing Gen Zers to Millennials. Compare them to Gen X and that’s no advantage.

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