It Sucks to Be 33

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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, a U.S. economy correspondent for The New
York Times.

Background reading:

When millennials gripe that they get blamed for everything,
the accusers might actually be onto something.

Millennials have the children, but boomers have the houses.

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