Millennials are not replacing face-to-face networks with online ones. Rather, they’re a generation that’s found a way to do it all, forging new online ties while also maintaining the usual face-to-face ones.
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Are millennial women and men working side by side in the new economy? Or are their occupations just as gender-segregated as ever?
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Millennials have a mobility problem. And it’s partly because the economy is no longer delivering a steady increase in high-status jobs. Read the full report.
The payoff to a college degree is as high for millennials as it’s ever been. But it’s partly because millennials who don’t go to college are getting hammered in the labor market. Read the full report.
Often tagged the “student debt generation,” millennials took out more student loans, took out larger student loans, and defaulted more frequently. Here’s a step-by-step accounting of how we let this happen. Read the full report.
Housing reforms during the civil rights era helped to narrow the white-black homeownership gap. But those gains have now been completely lost ... and the racial gap in young-adult homeownership is larger for millennials than for any generation in the past century. Read the full report.
Millennial poverty rates at age 30 are no higher than those of Gen Xers at the same age. But this stability hides a problem: Millennials are replacing a falloff in earnings with large increases in government assistance programs. Read the full report.
When millennials entered the labor market during the Great Recession and its aftermath, there were uniformly gloomy predictions about their fate. Does the evidence bear out such gloomy predictions? Read the full report.
The usual stereotypes have it that millennials are embracing a more diverse and unconventional set of racial and gender identities. Are those stereotypes on the mark? Read the full report.
