Monday, March 09, 2015

The American Dream: All Time Low!

The American Dream for the middle-class has always been about home ownership. However, that dream is definitely lost on today's millennials.  (See Chart 1.)  Why?  Millennials with over $1 trillion in student debt can not afford the American Dream.  It simply becomes a financial decision.  That is, make those monthly student loan payments or make those P&I monthly payments.  In other words, these two events are increasingly becoming mutually exclusive.


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