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Today in Focus

Who screwed millennials: a generation left behind – Full Story podcast

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Guardian Australia’s Full Story co-host Jane Lee and reporter Matilda Boseley investigate the mystery of who screwed young people out of affordable housing, education and secure work. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian. Hey, it's Mike, coming to you over this Easter weekend with a question.

0:17.0

Who screwed millennials?

0:20.0

A new podcast series from our colleagues, Guardian Australia thinks it has the answer.

0:25.0

In the UK, millennials are still recovering from the 2008 financial crisis.

0:31.0

They've never caught up with living standards of older groups.

0:35.0

And that's true of young people or maybe not so young people anymore in Australia as well.

0:40.0

They're wedged between rising house prices, wage stagnation, and ballooning student debt, all of which might be sounding a little familiar.

0:50.0

And across five episodes, Matilda Bozley and Jane Lee, try to figure out how did it get this way?

0:56.8

How did the children of the wealthiest generation in history, the baby boomers, end up being

1:02.0

the first generation whose living standards have actually

1:04.7

gone backwards and more importantly they ask how do we fix it for the whole series just search

1:12.0

full story wherever you listen to today in focus and with that here is episode one

1:17.3

The voice you'll hear is author Jill Philipovich talking to Matilda.

1:28.0

British Summertime. The sun is shining, the birds are singing.

1:31.0

A barbecue sizzles next door. You have absolutely nothing to do. Total bliss.

1:37.1

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1:47.0

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1:51.0

To learn more, visit the Guardian.com

1:53.8

forward slash Honda mime. This message was paid for by Honda.

1:57.8

The stereotypes from our millennials are that we're spoiled, we're entitled, we are extremely sensitive,

2:08.6

snowflakes, we're broke because we spend all of our money on avocado toast.

2:13.6

Lazy entitled whiny babies, I think what is the stereotype.

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