Simply put, provide some sort of aid for Millenial and Generation Z individuals, especially with student loan debt. The interest by itself is contributing to these generation’s hardships and soon-to-be greatly affecting the US’s economy. These generations are of some of the most poorest individuals in US history due to inflation, student loan interests, a non-stop rising cost of living, DEI policies, and endless layoffs and lack of oportunities. We should do what we can to eliminate their burdens so that they can have more money to create families, start businesses, and contribute to their communities. As it stands they are living out of cars and in trailer parks, growing homeless, living in the shadows of society, surviving from food panteries (free food handout locations), buying mainly from thrift stores, do not see paths to success and achivments (feeling like they are failing their families), are giving up on the labor force (due to mass layoffs and no meaningful jobs), contributing to around the highest unalive statistics in US history, moving out of the country, giving up on families (mainly due to high cost for children and inability to find a family due to third wave feminism and divorses taking half their assets), permanently stuck as roommates or living in their parent’s basements, and overall losing hope, purpose, and increasingly becoming desperate and facing despair.
They feel there is no hope and feel the nation has changed so much, there was no time to adjust, comprehend, or plan for such changes. Now with AI and automation replacing jobs, they are less optimistic than ever. They have labeled this new economy the gig economy and are competing with newer individuals entering the workforce, along with seniors re-entering the work force (whose social security is not enough for retirment). This create desperity to which is having negative effects on the economy, their mental health, and the ability for Americans to increase and produce value and quality to build their communities and mentor the next generation. Many feel the nation (and society) has failed them, betrayed them, or purposefully ignores them.
I’m not sure what can be done to help these generations, and possibly the next generation to come. Perhaps a stimulus package? A reduction in student loan interest? A forgivness program for student loans? Or, perhaps an incentive for them to build businesses through grants or a special programs? If nothing is done, it seems immanent that the US will soon be affected by their hardships as they grow more desperate, lose purpose, and lose all hope possibly resulting in desperate or uncontrollable outcomes and behaviors.
