I just heard about Strapped: Why America's 20- and 30-somethings Can't Get Ahead, via the Oregon Bus Project's dandyslick email list. My response to most of the reviews I've seen and the quick facts on the site were "Oh good, I'm not completely insane." The author says this is happening to 60% of people my age, which jives well with what I've observed. Among my group of friends maybe it's a little less, as I would expect given the number of techies.
But this terrible, knee-jerk, straw-man review from Slate sums up a broad alternative response pretty neatly in it's subhead: "Twentysomethings who can't stop whining about how the economy is screwing them." How bad is it, really? Click for the extended entry...
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