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So you've probably heard that millennials in Gen Z are going to be the first generations of Americans

to have lower standards of living than their parents. It's too expensive to go to college, to buy a house,

have kids, you name it, goes this line of thinking. My guest today is here with good news.

Younger Americans are actually doing better than Gen X was at the same stage, and they're in the same

ballpark as baby boomers, too, when you adjust for inflation and population.

Jeremy Horpidal is a libertarian economist trained at George Mason University who teaches at University of Central Arkansas.

His work, which draws on the Census, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and other non-controversial sources,

shows that young Americans are doing well

and that economic mobility is the rule rather than the exception. I talk with him about why

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