Ep 243: OK, Boomer: How Millennials Got Left Behind (And What To Do About It)

HerMoney with Jean Chatzky

Jean Chatzky Her Money

Investing, Business

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

You’re probably familiar with the “OK, Boomer” meme… But it’s not just a sarcastic dismissal — it’s a recognition that millennials are in crisis, says this week’s guest Jill Filipovic, author of "OK, Boomer, Let's Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind.” Jill highlights some of the policy changes and economic structures that have held millennials back, and walks us through concrete suggestions to improve our lives. In Mailbag, we tackle listener questions on loaning money to family, what to do if you’re considering a career in finance, and how to move forward with FMLA if you’re a contract employee who is expecting a baby. In Thrive, a mind trick that can help you save more money. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an airwave media podcast.
0:06.0	If millennials want to see their lives improve,
0:10.0	then one of the things they can do is engage politically
0:12.0	and understand what is it that set them on this course, right?
0:17.5	No man is an island, right?
0:19.5	None of us have just made these choices and wound up here out of sheer circumstance.
0:24.4	There are a series of political decisions that went into carving this course that many
0:29.2	millennials have walked down.
0:31.2	And so I think asking, OK, what were those decisions and how can we make
0:34.7	different ones in the future is frankly the best way for for millennials to shift their prospects.
0:41.6	And you can buy the avocado toast, it's okay.
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1:08.0	Hey everyone it's Jean Chatsky. Thank you so much for joining me today on her money.
1:17.0	One of the things that makes this show so interesting is that you are listeners as we know from previous surveys are kind of a perfect
1:27.2	mix demographically speaking about a third of you are millennials a third of you are gen exers a third of you are millennials, a third of you are Jen Xers, a third of you are boomers, and because of this the questions
1:38.7	that you submit to our mailbag are wonderfully diverse and the conversations that you have in our private
1:44.9	Hermani Facebook group are incredibly wide-ranging and I love being part of all of it.
1:50.8	I love watching the different generations come together and learn from one another.
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