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Millennials And Money

It's Been a Minute

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🗓️ 9 July 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Financial journalist Hannah Seligson and Aminatou Sow from the podcast 'Call Your Girlfriend' join Sam to discuss why more and more millennials are financially intertwined with their parents — and why it's so hard to talk about. Listeners call in. Sends thoughts to samsanders@npr.org.

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0:00.0

Christina Crupy lives in Atlanta.

0:01.7

She is 22 years old and like a lot of college graduates these days,

0:05.5

she still relies on her parents financially.

0:08.2

I am living back in their basement right now.

0:11.3

So I graduated in my undergrad degree and psychology last year.

0:15.2

And so I've been here since August.

0:17.3

Christina got that undergrad degree at a state school.

0:20.4

She had scholarships, but her parents helped her pay her living expenses while she was in school.

0:26.0

And now for Christina, living at home and working a reception job at a local hospital.

0:31.4

That's still the case.

0:32.5

They pay from the food most of it, except for like when I go out to eat and stuff.

0:38.0

So they cook for you.

0:39.4

Yeah.

0:40.4

That's the dream.

0:41.1

Yeah.

0:41.8

I'll smell them cooking it up upstairs.

0:43.5

I'll be like, okay.

0:45.8

Christina says this is a short term arrangement.

0:48.2

She told me she's getting ready to begin a graduate program to be a physical therapist.

0:52.6

And she has some money saved up for that herself.

0:55.4

And she's also prepared to rely on loans for the rest she told me.

0:59.3

But her parents they saw me down a few weeks ago and were like,

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