Proof Millennials Have It Worse Than Their Parents
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- Millennials are at a much bigger disadvantage than the previous generation. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, tell you how millennials are screwed. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. www.tytnetwork.com/go
“Millennials are on shaky ground, struggling to gain the same financial security afforded to their parents, new data analysis suggests.
When baby boomers were young adults, their net worth was double that of today's young people, who earn $10,000 less than their counterparts did in 1989, according to findings from advocacy group Young Invincibles. Its analysis of Federal Reserve data comparing 25- to 34-year-olds in 2013 and 1989 after adjusting for inflation confirms what many already suspected: The American dream has slipped out of reach for the country's largest generation.
"Our findings show that we're not seeing a ghost. It is harder to get ahead in America today," principal investigator Tom Allison said.
The report points to declining wages and student debt as key factors. For boomers in 1989, the average tuition at four-year public colleges was $3,454 in today's dollars, the study found. Today, that figure has risen to $9,410.30.”
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They tell us to go to college so we can find a job to make money, but once we get out of college most of us are jobless and broke. WTF?!
Welcome to real life.
justrosy5 they still had high paying jobs dipshit.
Dawn's Star so why tell kids to go to school
Technical College bros! Cheap and more flexible to obtain employment.
Until you realize that what you went for is going to be obsolete because of automation or cheap third world labor.
People say, "Who do these Millennials think they are?"
I respond "They are exactly who they were raised, educated, and conditioned to be."
Omri Xavier your currwnt avatar works perfectly for that response lol screaming Stewie
Omri Xavier thank you .!!!!!!!!
Omri Xavier exactly! I can't beleive it when people blame and demonize children for the whole participation trophy thing. It's not like it was their idea. Which generation was it that thought that crap up and instituted it in public education. Not the millennials. Oh, and who was it that decided that having two incomes in a world where one income would suffice was so important that they sent their children to be raised in that public education system in the first place. Not the millennials.
I agree. It's our generations fault for pampering children and not enforcing enough discipline. I hope the kids sort themselves out and I have faith they will get there.
You mean UNEMPLOYED.. You have been sold a crap sandwich and are complaining to the people telling you it crap..Not the ones that sold you on it..
Jobs paying less, stuff costing more. Do the math.
James Smith Most 'stuff' obsessed generation ever.
Rob Robberson
Yea I meant stuff like food, fuel, rent. A lot of people are possesion obsessed though. Myself and wife both work full time but we have no savings or investements becaue of the day to day costs of living in the UK. We drive 10 year old cars to work, never go on holiday, and have to really watch what we spend every month. This video is correct how our generation is getting screwed compared to how it was in the 1980s.
Budget, save, learn to cook, stop getting $ tattoos, stop dying your $ hair purple, get a cheaper cell phone.
I bet you'll save over $1000 a year right there.
That $1000 doesn't even cover the soaring cost of rent, let alone everything else that has gotten more expensive as well.
Even when people scrimp and save they don't have much advantage. I do budget, i do cook for myself and while i have wanted tattoos for 15 years i could never justify paying for one, so i have never got one. i get 12$ hair dye once a year on my birthday, and i don't have a cell phone. This computer isn't even mine. Also i haven't walked into a Tim Horton's in about 6 years. I still wear old torn t-shirts from well over a decade ago. After all that i have about 100$ a month left after paying rent and bills. That is to cover food and transportation and anything "extra" I still consider myself very lucky as having a roof over my head and food on a daily basis is in my opinion "middle class" I can only hope to get things like makeup or clothes for christmas, and this year everyone was sick...so yeah. Saving money here and there doesn't make much of a difference.
The older generations don't care because it doesn't affect them. I see it in my parents and I see it even more in the generation before them.
That's true, my parents were from The Silent Generation also known as the Lucky Few. There were few of them so there was less competition for jobs. They were born during the depression but entered the job market after WWII.
I see many retired women living in government housing,welfare slums because all they have is $600 from social security
My parents literally don’t care about me and are shocked I could only save less than 1k a year at 18
They will care if no one pays their pensions, property prices drop, stocks drop and their savings dwindle.
The way to help that happen is to get some experience of work, learn where the demands are and emigrate to growing countries to take advantage of that growth, rising property and stock prices and of course the amazing salary/wage.
I’m a Gen-X, I just stand on the sidelines and watch the world go up in flames. But seriously, I have two kids in college. We give them what we can. We’re co-signed on their student loans and while my friends tell me to move to a smaller house, I’m waiting to see how and where my kids end up after graduation. I do worry about their ability to afford a house someday. It took me to 30 in 1994 to be able to buy a small house.
the middle class is clearly dead...
Obama? The janitor left to clean up the mess? I dont think so.
The middle class is still extremely productive and well educated. We could swing the economy back as soon as we outlaw indentured servitude in the form of student loans. Because then the middle class can start spending again.
brian kelly there really isn't a middle class anymore. the majority of the people are poor/low class, and the the low class views the middle class as rich.
Evan Wheeler is making 6 figures considering rich to you?
tobz d... 6 figures puts you in the top 20% of household income earners.. If you are married and you and your spouse make 150 k then you are amazingly in the top 8% i believe. So yes, 6 figures would make you rich compared to the majority of Americans.
My favorite one is "Millenials are killing the [insert industry name here] business"
Yes, my favorite pastime as a millenial is deliberately sitting on my hordes of cash, intentionally NOT spending it on these luxury items, and watching these industries shrivel and die while I practice my evil laugh. Bwahahaha...
Also Boomers were the ones that mostly killed small town America by only shopping at big box stores, but complain that Walmart ruined small town America lol.
Learn about how economy and capitalism works and then apply yourself. You'd do better in life.
The real problem is that boomers actually participate just as much as millenials in whatever modern destruction but they won't admit they do the same. Either way I still respect boomers (my parents are and I love them, neither generation has the right to blame everything on the others) because even if plans failed they did give us the very best they could and a lot more than their own parents gave them. Let's not be entitled jerks. We're all guilty.
Problem solved. Be born into the 0.1%
0.1%? peasant! lol.
G Washington if the world was the way it should be you wouldnt work for money. only for a cause and progress of society.. but your right about today's world.. everyone thinks they need to deserve something to get something ... being alive is enough in my opinion..
G Washington Most DO work for a living. You're an unempathetic and uninformed asshat.
well i agree with the progress part, being alive is amazing but well you should test your capabilities
Saffana Siddiqui indeed. trade centers would be in place for just that...
Why is student debt the one kind of debt you can't declare bankruptcy on?
Simple:
Rich people don't take out student loans.
Rich people are the one that gives out the loans. Banks borrow money from the rich, offer the rich an interest rate that the students will pay, the bank and rich split the inreset rate, and both profit.
Because it doesn't have collateral and you don't want it to have interest like a credit card do you, so that is why you can't drop it in bankruptcy
Because everyone would go to school and then when they graduate EVERYONE would declare bankruptcy and the places who give out students loans would go out of business.
Rich people get loans at below the inflation rate with low collateral, because the banks get money from the Federal Reserve at below the inflation rate. If you're not among the rich, the banks charge you a higher interest rate and want collateral.
Do you know how many people work their way through college instead of going to keggers on weekends or protesting things they know nothing about? Grow up you lazy little bastards.
News flash Millennials that gender studies degree isn't gonna do shit to get you a job when you get out of college.
Business management is a worthless field of study?
I go to a public university and the only people doing gender studies, art, music, etc. are those who belong to wealthy families.
+Nero The Terrible You mean like Besty DeVos?
Nero The Terrible I know many millenials with engineering and technical degrees who have to work fast food because they will not get hired. Only specific trade jobs in isolated areas have security.
On the flipside I do have a few friends millenial who are succesful with their arts degrees, however those people usually are entrepreneurs and start their own businesses, and they recieved their education to get the knowledge they needed to provide their service/product.
stem won't either unless you're doing computer science or engineering nowadays you need a post-graduate education
My mom to me and my siblings. "You have to go to college. You won't be successful if you don't"
My mom to me and my siblings after graduation. "Your loans are your problem and your responsibility to pay."
I mean she isn't wrong. She may have strongly encouraged it but you are an adult making adult decisions.
timmy D well most people make the decision about college before they legally become an adult
While technically that is true, but its not like when someone turns 18 they automatically gain some sort of mature knowledge. They have been reared to consider their future for years at this point. Like my sister went to college and it making 40k a year now, she is paying off her college debt but it will be payed off within the next couple years. I joined the army so I'm going to college on the weekends, and if I decide to get out, I can use my GI bill to cover a lot of my schooling and boarding.
All generations inherit something bad from the previous generation. We aren't special or particularly crippled in that department. but we also can build on the successes of the previous generation. My dad was a career soldier but made no where as much money as I do now including inflation. His generation ensured future soldiers were set
Jason Ortiz I think the college loan shits insane needs to be fixed. I was talking about taking accountability instead of blaming parents
My mom said to me: "Get a degree"Me: "I'm doing a liberal arts subject"Mom: *Seeing me unemployed* "I'll pay your therapy costs for awhile.."
I have two masters degrees, speak four languages fluently and have a ton of working experience from when I had part-time jobs during university. Now I am finished with my studies and I am doing an internship in Brussels at an international organisation. Yet I have no prospect at finding a decent job whatsoever. Some interns I know continue doing an UNPAID internship (mine is paid) for over a year. Just because we're all so desperate to find a decent job. Honestly, I never thought it would be this bad. I always knew competition was high... but I did not see this coming.
What field are you in? If you don't mind me asking
Legal.
I see, well best of luck for you! Despite all the people complaining about outward circumstances, hard work and patience pays off, and you have the capability to take yourself out of whatever situation you're in.
Khair de mehnat kawa badal ba darta milao shi, mehnat chirta bezaya ne zi.
Maybe you should have pursued a degree in the STEM field.
I always love when people tell millennials struggling to find employment they need to "hit the pavement". If you go into a store and ask for a job application most places tell you to go home and apply online. Jobs are far and few between, and I have been turned down a couple of times for not having any work experience. A broken system yields no winners. 😖
You forgot my favourite! "Entry level job, for beginners fresh out of college! 4 years experience required" lol what
Lunar Song's Grove yeah they don’t get that you can’t just walk in to a job off the street now!
sarah t. That’s ones the killer happened to my brother.
@Mike Landwolf i have done that many times to land a job.
And if you find one. Is miles away from you. That you need to take a bus 4 hrs a day + the waiting. Or buy a car that is used and requires repairs and maintenance. And then you have to pay 1200 for rent? Imagine for those with single parents.
let's not forget about the fact that minimum wage hasn't kept up and tons of organisations will only hire free interns.
Hitchhiking Vagabond - Yah you say that but there are no jobs because the older generation is still working them and most companies are looking for people that have at least 6-10 years work experience in their field. How the hell is a graduate supposed to get a job with that requirement? Thus they have to work minimum wage jobs in the meantime until they find a company willing to take a shot.
Even with 3 years working experience as a public accountant, most private companies didn't want to hire me because I had no experience actually booking journal entries and doing a monthly close. I only had experience verifying other accountants' work. I got lucky and a company took a chance to hire me even though they had bad experiences with prior public accountants.
So don't sit there and say that it's easy to get a job. Even with work experience at one of the largest global accounting firms, it was still difficult for me to find a company to hire me in 2011 because 3 years of experience might be too little. And if I'm competing with other Gen X or Baby boomers with years of experience wanting the same job because the recession screwed them over too, then how is any millennial going to have a shot?
Hitchhiking Vagabond If Adults do not work minimum wage jobs at all, are you suggesting that kids, highschoolers and college students SHOULD be working those jobs instead? If that is what you are suggesting, you are either advocating for child labor in terms of kids and highschoolers, or, you do not value education.
And when these; kids, highschoolers, college students, technical school students, enter in to the market with limited time to study....remember, they are working AND going to school at the same time....and thus less time to be educated in a global market, they run into the problem of low job opportunities cause all the high paying jobs are taken up and they "Shouldnt" or "Can't" go back to the minimum wage job they had held.
So now we have under educated college, highschool, and technical trades men with subpar skills trying to compete for high wage jobs against people from other countries with better education and thus better mastery of the jobs requirements.
No I am asking you a question if under the assumption "no adult should work a minimum wage job" as a base line, am I correct in the assessment of possible outcomes is in line with what you would expect to happen?
And if I am incorrect in that assumption, what do you present as a hypothesis of outcome?
Wow, lol! This thread is hillarious! Not only do "adults" not choose to stay in min wage jobs, low min wages also decrease and devalue all working wages. They do so while increasing stocks, executive bonuses and CEO pay. Hitchhiking Vag has no idea what s/he's talking about.
Been knew this I tell my parents this all the time, And I'm 23 Years Old,especially being a young black male, The world is a SUPER Fucked up place!
true
Just like that eh? Phucking Righteous. It's just that easy.
If your parents are under 60 they are not babyboomers anymore, they are Gen X'ers.. Cenk is talking about ppl that benefitted from the G.I-bill. Those ppl are 70 and over
People who took advantage of the GI bill are in their 90s. That is Greatest Generation not Boomers.
Born in 1950 = Boomers were little kids in the 1950s and teenagers in the 1960s.
Boomers became young adults in the 1970s and 1980s when the economy was "booming" especially during the Reagan years. If you were a straight white male who played by the rules and worked hard in the 1980s you could do no wrong and the world was your oyster. Back then a lot of people didn't even need college to get a decent job.
perhaps you should vote
Young people and blacks put trump into the white house by not voting. Congratulations, you have the president you deserve.
immediately out the gate new generations get hate for just existing.. it's nothing new.. I'm not even talking about money..
Jason, who made that problem? dumbass
Jason Bequette
Think of it this way, there isn't much of a difference between adolescents of the past 75-100 years or so outside of what they do for entertainment. Unless there was some kind of secret government or alien plot to alter the chemical makeup of the millennial generation (hint: that's very unlikely), then people today are just as driven to succeed and find happiness today as they have EVER been in the modern Era. So what does that mean? Why is the new generation having such a hard time getting by independently? Why are they still so "problematic"?
The answer is both simple and very complex: external factors. We are being affected by things far outside of our control, and are suffering for it. Every day things get more and more expensive; we're expected to pay more and more taxes. We work harder and longer than any generation before since the Industrial Revolution, and are more productive than any generation PERIOD (to be fair though, the generation immediately before ours has contributed to that a lot). Yet despite all of this we still can't afford the things that generations before us COULD afford, while they were less productive at the same time. Does that put the issue in a bit of a different light for you?
We don't have an entitlement complex, we're just trying to hold on to whatever we can while we have it, and strive for the things we're told we can't have.
Bear all what I want is an apartment and to be able to afford a functional car so I can take girls out. I'm 25 man.
non yobussiness
I'm lucky enough to be able to afford an old truck, but that on top of rent and bills is about it
yeah you see how bad the ruling class mind poison is when brain washed parents hate their own right out the gate, imagine how a parent like that feels about the poor and the other...
Not only that but "internships" are not what they used to be. They used to be a tool to see what a intern can or can not do. After a certain time they hire them or not. Employers used interns as temporary employees. It's sad.. 👎
Crystle Senn very true!
@John Taylor boomer thinking he didn’t get everything handed in a silver platter
If it wasn't for my parents, I would be living in a basement somewhere, or worse homeless. The system is set up to ensure we are indentured servants to the Corporations. I have been screaming this for years. The idea that student debt cannot be discharged is only part the story. The other part is, your parents beat it in to you to go to college, because it would increase your chances at getting a better job and not end up working in a fast food joint for the rest of your life. They were both right and wrong, but not because your parents were evil, because many of us (you) were the first generation to go to college, so naturally your parents wanted what they though was best for you. Fast forward now, where (for profit colleges) reign supreme and tuition are through the roof, the idea of college seems idiotic, unless you going for Medical Degree or Computer Science Degree.
You will also here people say things like " Well you should have joined the military and they would have paid for you schooling, or worked as a public worker for the state and have you college paid for" First off, not everyone will be eligible to enter the military. In my case my eyesight prevented me from qualifying. Instead, I ended up taking a student loan out, and it both helped me and backfired at the same time. Helped me because I was able to get a decent paying job between 22 and 28 /hour, however it backfired because I was one of those who went to a for profit school. Now I'm 34000 in the hole. But, if I never went to college, I would still be working at Lowe's Home improvement, pushing carts.
Unfortunately, We Millennial's find ourselves in a catch 22 situation! Now, yes, there are skill trade jobs out there, and there are an abundance of free online training programs such as Cybrary, Khan Academy, etc where you can learn how to prefect a certain trade and apply for jobs in that specific industry; however with so much competition out there, many corporations want people with 5 years experience with little training needed. What happened to hiring employee sand training for the job. These ideas have given way to Employers expecting people straight out of college to know the job. This stacks the deck against would be future gradates.
There are many successful millennial's making money online, however, that doesn't begin to put a dent into the situation that we find ourselves in currently. There's is still hope,and we all should still work hard to get to where we want, I only write this to inform people who assume that Millennial's are lazy and entitled, that they should know how hard it is, because back in the day (like old people like to throw around) you could work one job and raise a family of 10! Now both parents have to work, and pay a third of their money to daycare, and many work more then one job to make ends meet, so who's entitled?
The Mexicans, Central Americans and the Chinese immigrants are taking all of the formerly unionized construction (trade) jobs.
The big reason for this is so many kids are pressured into going to college and getting into huge amounts of debt, before they really even understand what it is like to be an adult
@John Taylor So you encouraged them to risk their lives fighting pointless wars because you were too cheap to help them pay for college? Great parent you are. Bet all that money you saved sending them to college was spent on more important stuff like vacations or a convertible like the typical boomer.
Where is this “trophy” thing coming from? I’ve never received a trophy for anything 😂
When I was in college in the early 2000s, it cost $2500 for two entire semesters (books and residency excluded). I just found out that my Alma mater now charges $8000 per semester ($16,000 combined, per year). That is an insane increase over the 14 years since I graduated. I'm so happy I when to school when I did. I couldn't imagine paying student debt today.
I went to college in 2012. And if I wanted to rent a room it was about 700 to 1500 a month.
Exactly…..I don’t understand how they don’t get that. We literally CANT AFFORD IT, unless you’ve got mommy and daddy’s money….
As much as I agree with their basic points, they leave out one crucial fact when comparing the 1989 four year public university tuition to the current figure: the 1989 bachelor's degree COULD ACTUALLY GET YOU A JOB for majors other than electrical engineering. That is NOT the case today. Hell, if you go back far enough you could take a high school diploma and get a full time job with benefits at a factory. Today you show up with two masters' degrees and you're offered a choice between a part time job or a $1000/month internship with the "possibility" of full-time work after six months. A big problem is that Boomer parents don't understand this. They continue to push their kids to get degrees without realizing that they're essentially telling them to acquire a $50,000 + debt with minimal expectations of gainful employment.
You can still get a "real" job with just a bachelors. It's just that the degree must give you marketable skills. The most common are in computer science, engineering, nursing, medical tech, and accounting. Nobody is going to hire someone just because you have a piece of paper saying you have a degree in basketweaving. Who cares - you're dead weight to me unless you have a skill that you can apply on day 1 of the job.
@J H You're saying a 17-18 year old just out of high school should know what's best for them and just disregard anything their parents tell them? You don't think many kids look to their parents for advice or direction? Parents should guide their kids to the best path for success. The entire point is they are still pushing their kids towards a losing proposition.
J H so let’s not “laden ourselves with debt”. Then how do you pay for college?
on top of all that, what few jobs we have left are all part time!! I've had to hold 2 jobs for the longest (usually 2 part times) just to make ends meet. No not to go on vacation or buy a home. But to just make it!
Nobody ever talks about how full time jobs are now a commodity in this nation, when you are starting out you need a full time job not part time, part time should be for those ready for retirement, students etc people who WANT part time. Not for people who want a full time job
lol here's things in perspective, I talked to my doctor who's in his 60, went to 12 years of schooling, medical school into specialized for another 2. went to public university too. after all of that, he only came out with 10k in debt. I went to the one of the cheapest university in my state for two years and I'm in 24k debt... uhmmmm that's fucked up lmao
Need to do homework on the system of inflation my friend. You are giving us Millennials a bad name.
Germ Bedro did he mention anything at all about being a liberal!??? 🤦🏻♀️
@Germ Bedro Ten grand in 1979 is the equivalent of 35k today... So 2 years of university nowadays costs nearly 70% of what 12 years of medical school was back then. If you don't think that's bad then I'd say you're the dumb one.
Be more decisive and you wouldn't be in debt because you would've completed the appropriate amount of education required to be a doctor.
@Germ Bedro Stop exaggerating, actual inflation from 1980 to now is only 3x so would be about 30k not 100k
So where did the money go to? (1) bankers, (2) corrupt politicians, (3) China, (4) defense contractors, and (5) oil companies.
and now the baby boomers are trying to make an unwanted uneeded comeback
justrosy5 yeah I guess
It's needed. You idiots can't even think for yourselves. You want the government to run your lives. I blame the school system for your inability to take care of yourself.
I went to college full time (17-19 credits) and to tried (keyword tried) to pay for it by working full time (35-40 hours/week) along with the money I had saved from working 2 years and summers of high school. In college, I lived in the living room so we could split the apartment costs by an extra person. Survived off of ramen and other non nutritious and cheaper costing foods. After going to a state school for a year, I transferred to a community college to save money on tuition while doing gen eds and transferred back. My parents even paid for my freshman year (tuition), which thank you to them otherwise I wouldn't have even tried, but I still ended up with debts. I tried, I tried hard, like really hard to not end up with debts, but you can't just work over the summer or even year round to pay for college anymore. At least not on minimum wage.
Your grandfather could work at a pizzeria or be a parking lot attendant and buy a house off that income alone by the age of 23.
One of the major problems with housing prices that no one seems to talk about is the fact that banks are allowed to charge compound interest, which raises the cost of a home by almost double. That half a million listing price that Ana was talking about is actually close to a million after a 30 year mortgage.
What's the alternative though? Buying cash (with money we don't have)?
Buy a land patent, or buy freehold land that you can patent, build a house on it, and live off the land.
The vast majority of Americans don't have the kind of money it takes up front to buy land and build a house on it. Trust me, I've looked into doing that and I _really_ wish I could, but as of right now I cannot.
00inwiththenew00 Exactly. They have us by the balls and they know it. Which is why I think compound interest should be illegal, especially on a basic necessity like shelter. This will never happen, of course; not as long as banks have such a huge influence over our political system. We couldn't even get a single one of the fuckers in prison for causing the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression.
One could argue your ideas about compound interest are anti-capitalistic. Many people say healthcare isn't a right so who's to say owning a home is a right either? No one is forcing us to buy a home, and we sign the mortgage knowing full well what we're getting ourselves into. Then reality hits... lol.
I am a milllennial. I do think that the biggest issue is student debt, and it is totally out of control. Unfortunately, we are stuck with it. I think instead of wanting someone to save us or continue to see ourselves as victims we need to instead turn our attention to prevent the next generation from repeating our mistakes. What I mean by this is telling people the harsh truth that many college degrees are not worth the 100k+ that you pay for it. If you major in business (my degree), political science, art, history, and many more degrees...you will learn much more going directly into the work force for those four years. Also, if you go to a trade school for 6 months to learn to be a plumber, wood worker, electrification, etc. you will make far more than an entry level corporate job and you have a chance to make six figures easily. The market is dying for these jobs and ripe for young millennials to take over these companies.
Heck, you could even start two different businesses, fail twice, and still be in FAR less debt that your college degree. I worry we are going to see a massive reduction in new business because the norm is to go to college, get in debt, and then it's very discouraging to start a business.
A college degree isn't 100k.
About 50 -75k is the norm now. State school (nothing special) will run you 10k/year. That's just tuition - once you add in housing costs then it can easily go upwards very quickly. Private schools are the killer where tuition averages 30k/year - stay away from those completely unless it's an Ivy. Overall, pick a program that gains you marketable skills. Majoring in dumb things like history give you nothing that an employer wants. Also, see if you can try to graduate in three years - some schools are catering programs to allow students to do this to shave off an entire year.
I got 2 bachelors, an extra minor, and an associate's for around 50k before considering tax breaks. After tax breaks were considered the price was 36-37k by gaming the tax system.
Student debt is one major problem and the lack of bloody friggin jobs or a career to sustain you.
@@StarrEyes86 Yeah it is if you go to the art institute like I did it gets that high so dont know what you're talking about.
Doesn't exactly take a genius to see that us being told to enter poor job market with large amounts of debt from years in college with stagnant wages makes us worse off than our parents. Unfortunately, a large number of angry old people think we're just "whining" because of some trophies we got a children or something.
Because their parents dropped the ball and allowed our government to get out of control
The problem is not the government but that pathetic Raeganomics shit ....
That’s what happens when you rely on the government for everything
The government is not a business, not sure why they're in charge of the money when they can't create profit
Here's a fun exercise: millenials, let's post our goals and dreams to show how low the bar is.
Long term: turn my AA into a Bachelors'. Get a steady government job. Move out of California. Buy my own house, maybe in Detroit.
Short term: live somewhere I can keep a bed. Get through work today.
Long term: Maybe one day be able to afford to have a kid or two with my husband. Pay off my student loans so I can know what it's like to not be in debt, and not feel like someone is breathing down your neck every day saying 'That's a nice life you have. Would be a shame if something happened to it...' Find a full-time job that might actually think of me as more than a number or a cog in a wheel.
Short term: Try to not cry today. Just get through the daily chores to maybe spend a few minutes doing something I want to do.
(What feels like pipe-dreams at this point) Find a job that doesn't suck happiness out of my life and/or make me feel like a slave. Live in a place that actually puts people first instead of money.
long term: attend hair dressing classes and move elsewhere, apply for job somewhere. maybe not go bankrupt buying gluten free because im celiac and groceries alone are too much money
short term: work 2 jobs have the government income tax the shit out of the minimum wage and then hope i dont end up homeless and dead in the street with nothing.
oh and my parents cant help because they also live paycheck to paycheck what a great world
Long term: get a house with a garden and write a book.
Short term: get away from crazy relatives into a CLEAN place to live and learn Spanish.
Go to fine art uni and become a happy (but poor) artist, and leave a mark on art history. I only want to go to art uni to get connections/learn new skills/be surrounded by like minded people
yeah make America great again... 80s and 90s was the shit lol
Eternal rewind2 in 1999 I was paid $23 an hour to work in a warehouse moving boxes
The 80's and 90's was the party.. Where the kids spent all the wealth and work of the WW2 Great Depression generation's work....... Even the technological advances can be traced directly to their work.... The Iphone technology was largely developed in the 60's by federal funding.
DootDoot the 90s was also a important time imo.. black people were finally not only accepted but where cool. black people where all over TV.. like LL Cool is in da house.... that's what I experienced as a teen.. black = to whites. shit whites wanted to be black... flash forward to today and u got all this BLM crap...
+Eternal rewind. If only they had the same representation in government like they did on your TV :/
Lou McLaren you mean like how we had a black president for 8 years? that was made possible because blacks stopped being oppressed in the 80s and 90s
Grandparents don't understand why I stress about College debt (current Sophomore) since they say I'm not done and it's not an issue.
Until I explain that nearly a 100k at an average priced college is why I'm freaked out. My debt will be more than what they paid for three of their children to go to school. From two incomes; and a cut due to military background and being a professor at one child's university.
Where as I'm paying out of pocket and saving all I have towards this. Yet they still have the audacity during holidays or visits to question why I'm still worried. Or why I'm stressed so much about this.. not of concern, but purely annoyance as, and I quote
"We never heard such behavior from our children"
The ones in which they paid all four years..yeah..I wonder why..
Realm Of Unknown you need a different school. You need to transfer. I'm sorry bro.
If college costs 100k that means you don't know how to search or negotiate.
Hahaha lol the system benefits off of dumb asses like you
Find a job that lets you work overtime in the summer and pick up a couple part time jobs while in school. You can graduate with no debts
Realm Of Unknown sounds like you need to sit down with them and show them exactly why you're stressed out.
The lack of empathy in today's world is shocking. It's disgusting that some people use "just work harder and deal with it" to turn a blind eye to the suffering of an entire generation and to justify and perpetuate a flawed system.
Its why suicide is so much high with this generation that previous generations
My parents had no money (both from big families and one an immigrant) and by working part-time and/or summer jobs, were able to pay their own ways through law school. They then spent a combined 60-70 years working as public servants (labour lawyer and public defender). There is ZERO chance that someone in their positions now could do the same.
Who wins in this scenario? Why are we doing? Why are we robbing ourselves of the positive contribution of an ENTIRE generation (if not several generations)? I don't understand it.
Anyone who would argue that the middle class has become almost nonexistent for anyone born after the baby boomers generation is being dishonest. The economy has led to home prices exceeding what any average working younger person can afford. I wish something could be done to even out wages and the cost of living. Real estate being a hugely out of control part of it. In the 70s and prior to that almost every family were home owners. My parents home was under 5k in 1970!! Now, the same home is 300k. Talk about insanity!
The problem with housing is with unrestricted foreign investors buying up residential property in cash. They put in offers over market value due to cash offering so the traditional schmuck just looking to buy a home to actually live in ends up having a market supply that is tight, driving prices up even further. Other countries institute limits with heavy taxation on foreign ownership or outright ban it, especially when they aren't even going to be living in the home, as is 99.99% of the case in the US with foreign ownership purchases.
Our caveman grandparents are better off than us, they don't have to pay rent or mortgage just to own a house.
Raymond Ramos If you go back past the Great Depression era, they built there own home, but the codes and regulations and the materials to build the homes were much more affordable for that generation, then the Great Depression came and wiped out there gains.
I'm a boomer, and I haven't done as well as my parents. When I went to my class reunion several years ago, I found that I had probably done about the same as my classmates. Many had been forced into early retirement (me included) because of the recession. The media never covers the fact that most corporations dumped their older employees when they were at their peak earning potential; when they could have dumped more earnings into retirement funds or helped their kids. The reason boomers are angry is that we were taken advantage of throughout our careers and it only got worse. If you look at income vs productivity inequality, it happened from Reagan on. The Great Generation screwed the boomers. I only want the best for my millennial daughter, and her daughter.
BlankBrain As a millennial I agree and the same thing happen 2 yrs ago with my boyfriend's father (62), but he was fortunate enough to have worked himself into a position in which he was greatly needed. It really is a shame, but I can't stand hoe some boomers are acting so irrational. Im lucky enough to not have such extreme boomers in my life and who supports me and wants the best for me without being condescending. Now its time for me to ignore the noise and work hard to hopefully take care of my love ones.
We were drilled to do better than our parents. This was a given. I was pretty disheartened to discover many Millennials have taken a few steps back. Well, you may want to take a look at those bankers and the upper 1%. Did any of the bankers go to jail for what they did in 2007-2008? Many people lost their homes and businesses. This did not happen because illegal immigrants were “taking” American jobs. This did not happen because the poor were getting too many benefits. This happened because of greed.
Yeah the complete unrestricted "trickle down" economics policies have screwed over more than the 30 and below crowd.
Avrysatos there goes that "30 and below" shit. Like anyone at 31 or 32 or even 35 is doing all that great. This isn't new. it's been going on for nearly a decade there those early 30somthings who were on their early 20s then. Stop using 30 as some arbitrary divide
gamma21285 it's a general number range. it doesn't imply exclusivity. stop being silly I know you understand that.
I am going to play this for my grandparents. They say to just get any job and work hard because they did and they got wealthy, so clearly it is our laziness holding us back.
8 richest individuals own as much wealth as the bottom half of all humans on earth. Yeah capitalism.
You forgot to mention that besides the fact that wages are low, most jobs nowadays are only part-time.
My father's father managed to raise a son and support a wife and own a home in town without a college degree. My father managed to support 4 kids and a wife and own a home in the city without a college degree. I have a college degree and needed my wife to earn the same as me to be able to afford a home way out in the sticks. And we never felt we could afford kids. My nieces and nephews can't even afford a house.
And think of the difference in the price of rents! Rent prices are insane in many states.
Trying to save for a down payment while renting and paying student loan debt is impossible for most.
Jesus its trump supporter night in all the TYT comments. Can't deny TYT is still more entertaining than any other media source, even if you completely disagree with them haha
I'm 41 and still broke!
suga bull you have a phone and the free time to watch this video. STFU get off your ass and quit bitching!
suga bull You had better chances than anybody else today during your youth. Stop whining for not making it when you had the chances.
You and I are Generation X and we are being ignored. They are talking about Baby Boomers and Millenials as if we don't exist.
Drew Is Cookie why?
I feel you there, tho I'm a bit younger
I've been working 5 jobs to get back to baseline. I am 31 and entering middle to upper middle class finally. I might die early though from stress and exhaustion.
But I thought Obama was gonna bring hope and change. How can this be happening?
8 years of republican dominance and blockading outside the exec branch causing a retardation of our political process, literally.
Hey, at least your guy's about to end net neutrality. Then we can be just like great and powerful Best Korea and only have .trump sites. Make the internet censored (again?)!
Colton Young, there were at least two years where Obama had the chance to pass any law he wanted and still even tried to negotiate Obamacare with the republicans. What happened? Every Republican still didn't vote for it.
He didn't, but you can still *hope*.
Innovation has lowered the cost of almost everything w buy. However education and heath care have risen by large amounts and have been resistant to large scale innovation. Theses industries need to be challenged as well as our expectations of what we get for the money we spend.
Housing prices and the general cost of living has actually risen insanely!
Not as much as you think. Many of the things we have today are products only the wealthy had in the 80s and 90s
Yes, like a microwave. I knew they existed, but my family nor anyone I knew had one. Remember when a Betamax or VCR player cost almost $1000? Purchasing a movie on tape could cost you $100. That wasn’t that long ago. I am talking about the mid 1980’s to early 90’s…except the microwave. That was in the 60’s and 70’s.
Hahaha this is why when I graduate HS I'm going to trade school and then working for my step-dad. I feel bad for the peeps who get a bachelors degree and then end up doing the same minimum wage job they did in high school.
Smart 🙋
I love this video. My friend and I always talk about the injustice that we're constantly facing. Life will be so hard once we're adults because of debt (we can't even live under a roof without a crap load of debt, and shelter is our basic human right). I love this talk about a Revolution. We need a change now.
Middle School 9/11. Graduation year (2008) recession. 2011 Occupy Wallstreet. 2013-2020 Fighting for black lives. 2020 pandemic. When has our generation seen anything good?
This applies to other countries as well, we all are the most productive generation the world has ever seen and the one with the worst salaries, benefits, treatment. We were told to bet everything on a degree to then find no jobs and end up doing miscellaneous jobs for minimum wage or less. Wonder why we complain ...
"We were told to bet everything on a degree". Again with this nonsense. Nobody told you that, idiot.
Did they control for college attendance? I make less money, greater college debt, and have less savings than my parents who worked in a factory (at the same age as me). However, I'm currently graduating from medical school and will almost certainly have a greater net worth than they ever had in the next decade.
THANK YOU GUYS! I'm so appreciative of you guys talking about this story. You have people working there of all different ages yet you stay objective on this.
30 years old and had this debate with my parents... "Hey I busted my ass and went to college too!" she says. Her counter argument is always: "Well, go back to school! do what you want to do in life!" HAHAHA HAAAAA! p.s.-I'm still paying off loans from the first round.
It's not just Millenials Gen X my generation also got fucked over.
Quaxk lives in his moms basement.
X X 😂😂😂
My dad got a job after high school. He worked for Chrysler.building cars for a living . In Newark Delaware. He had no experience. He worked from the 70s-2007. And now he retired. And has two homes. One in particular and the other in fL.
Me I went to school for cosmetology. I am so much debt.i gotta though all this shit just get a job.
I wish it was it was the 70s where you had no experience and still get the job.
This video made me cry a bit because I tell myself these things that I'm not working hard enough to get out of my debts and get where I want to be and I constantly feel like I'm scratching at a wall that I'll never get past
The one thing the 1% wants is for you to blame each other. A big cause for the job pain is the vast amount of knowledge work that has been off-shored. In some companies 85% of IT support is now being provided from India or cheaper sources. Companies do not have to offer the old wages - the competition makes a fraction and the onshore jobs are scarce relative to candidates. This includes a lot of middle management and administrative work.
So go ahead and blame the immigrants and the millenials and the baby boomers. While you are busy more work will disappear.
28 year old High school drop out, zero college debt, $45k salary, home owner with $40k equity.
Sure didn't. I actually followed more of a Trump plan by fixing up a property lol.
+Jamesadeth It's not your house tho not yet, so we just get into stuff we can't affort? I live in Texas trust me I have to pay 45k for collage and i live with some friends we pay 1k a month(4 friends) i have 2 jobs im not lazy and no there's alot of people with out jobs and trust me we need a bunch lol....
+Jamesadeth 2. You can't compare your time to ours. You voted Trump bcs u though it was a change when in fact is going to murder the shit out of us. Most of the b.bers voted trump and olny 20% of Millennials went Trump.
+Jamesadeth 3. Don't expect me to understand ideology that is not reasonable lol i work in landscaping 3 days a week from 5am to 9pm and there plenty of work. Now Next time you try to help future Generations, help us by not voting for a psychopath
He dropped out of high school. No college, no debt. The "education" system did not have enough time to brainwash him to make decisions he will regret.
As a Black Millennial who goes to school part-time and works full time all I can say is that this feels real bad man.
Hey TYT, you guys should do a segment on student debt loopholes! There are ways of lessening your debt by moving to certain less populated states, joining a non profit organization, etc. Just a thought! Thanks for what you guys do!!
As a millennial myself, i'd say that we ARE generally less oriented towards businesses & employment than the previous generations. And that's because we're less driven by the traditional capitalistic ethos of "competition for success & accumulation". We are the first generation to have grown up with the internet, we make up the first global batch of epistemological nomads in the oceans of free information. Seeing gaps between what we're expected to believe to be real and what is real, has been part of our everyday life. We learned to question the establishment and value possibilities. We wonder more strongly whether the traditional systems can continue. We are more familiar with the emerging technologies that connect us and liberate us from the mechanical tasks, so we are oriented more towards cooperation & automation. We sense that human labor is becoming obsolete as the main industrial workforce, and that we could spend more of our time in the rather meaningful stuff that would enrich the real quality of our life. Many of us are beginning to talk about not only something as relatively mild as "Democratic Socialism" but also something as profound as the "Third Industrial Revolution", the "Zero Marginal Cost Society", "Fully-Automated Luxury Communism", a "Natural-Law Resource-Based Economy", and more people are going to come around to this notion that such an equitable sustainable alternative will have to replace capitalism along with its paradigm of top-down human employment -- a radical notion which has been a big taboo for the previous generations. We may need more time to improve our political language and to educate our confused minority whose phobic sensitivities are being exploited by the alt-right & far-right, but we will eventually become a leading part of the revolution to come, i hope.
Miranda N we are more capitalist
U r only speaking for urself
The terms you put in quotes sound retarded but overall I agree
I hope I see it before I die
Miranda N beutifully written response,thank you! Just noti e all the boomers in politics helping themselves to the "free cake" of the pension jobs by being a judge or a police or fire chief or some "supervisor title" like being the president or being a county commisioner or city manager or mayor for instance all these positions reflect the laws and regulations of how we will live with this current system and they are forcing us to eat peanuts while they stay on top with bank rolls and rolls and rolls of loans for extravagant living but keep us in the dirt, I fewl like we need to flood the political jobs with the young to overthrow the old, its due time and natural to overthrow the old wolf out of the pack, and co tinue on our lives, this NEEDS TO BE DONE NOW!!!! BEFORE WE OR ANYONE UNDER 45 IS COMPLETELY ERASED FROM THE PLANET!!!!
Generation X ---- can't fuck with us
Marak Lia there's not enough of you lol
Right lol:)
I completely agree. My baby boomer parents don't get it. The system was against us from the start. We aren't entitled....everything was gone before we became adults. 9/11, housing market, wall street crash....student debt. Jobs don't pay us enough to live and enjoy our lives. We can't afford what our parents could afford at this age. My grandparents who one came from Sicily and the other from Armenia had a better outlook on life than we do now. It's so sad and completely out of our control until we get older than give the baby boomers the boot. Another 10-15 years and we will get generation x in office....it's slowly becoming our time and when it does....we will not continue this cycle with our children than our parents passed down to us. We will be better. We're watching baby boomers to learn what not to do. We will be a better nation for our children and grandchildren one day. We will have a community and nice society again....our democracy might have plunged into darkness but always remember that the light over powers that darkness so we will carry on. There's more of us than there are of baby boomers. They need to quit playing with us or they'll not get a nice nursing home later on...
I don't want to have less than the future generation just because the time I was born. What I learned is if I don't want to suffer the same consequences as the rest of my generation I have to take risks and make it to the top. If the tax levels go back to the 1950s levels I will find a way to cheat on them so I can have the lifestyle I dreamed of. I mean if my life has to suck for some future generation that's not fair so I will do whatever it takes to stop this unfairness from happening to me.
My mom moved into our house in the late 90s,,,the value of it was $30,000 at the time…now the value of the house is at $180,000…..that’s 6x the cost within the span of about 20 years…$30,000 is around the average price of a decent vehicle now…..they have no idea how much we actually do struggle, and some still wanna call us lazy, while wages aren’t going up and everything else is. Make it make sense
She is comparing Millennials (1985-2004) to their Grandparents (Baby Boomiers 1946-1964) not their parents ( Generation X 1965-1984). I am not arguing that financially Millennials are having a hard time, I am just saying that if they are going to do a comparison like they just did do not screw up, or lie about, the facts.
OK, baby-boomers were my parents. I graduated in 1989, so I'm Gen. X and my kids are millennials. The study skipped right over us and Cenk didn't notice that! Please, do not lump us in with THAT lot. It was bad enough being raised in their narcissistic culture.
Hitchhiking Vagabond didn't buy stock?
I already had money in the stock market, fucker. Just where do you think it went?
I read a comment here on TH-cam: "Everyday I wake up, I wish I didnt" So true...
This is what happens when politicians lie and people continue to vote against their own interest.
THERE ARE NOT AS MANY JOBS!!!
Favorite quote from this video: "Millennials grew up on the Internet. They know a lot more than the older generations do." If that's true, should we do away with schools, since we learn so much more from the Internet?
Interesting that you would say that because I read articles about this becoming a potential future for us. Already started with education being online now.
Bavan S most education is waste of time, picking away at our lives when we could be honing a single skill to it's upmost potential, during most of school we learn a variety of subjects that we relearn the next year. But we need that just so we can get into college. Education system definitely needs to change, if we want any hope of fixing our economy.
Great depression 2008 to 2016--it has NOT been reported properly.
My grandparents house cost less than $5000 and he paid cash. We get life long mortgages.
28 years old. Programmer. 150k a year. Company paid for my masters degree.
You know instead of getting a useless and non-competitive degree you can get a useful degree or go to trade school.
Seth N You do realise not every young person studies art right? I'm a chemical engineering student and most of my friends study STEM degrees. Get over yourself you revolting boiled egg.
Do you think anybody can become an engineer?
Seth N
Beautiful.
You know how to do it. :)
Xftbllplyr you will note I said "or go to trade school" in my original comment. All you need to know is algebra to enter trade school. At the very least you will earn 15 dollars an hour
Pilla _ Great then you will have a 100k a year job when you graduate. Name one chemical engineer who isn't employed?
It is called invest your money and live below your means. So if you live at home until you can support your self then do it.
Jacob Novero Exactly.
Jacob Novero thats not always an option
Matt, Yes, it is. There is always an option
Scarlet Knight living at home isnt always an option how ignorant can you be?
Then be homeless, but there is still always a way. Have a winners mindset, not one of blaming the government or other circumstances.
One of my biggest regrets in life might be going to college. I could have easily done the work im doing now without a college education smh. Experience is the best way to learn something and going to school is not always necessary to understanding how to do a job. You can take courses online for cheap or read books and learn on your own. Unfortunately you need a degree to get hired in most places, so universities and colleges will continue to rip off ppl till the end of times
Thank you so much! I'm glad someone finally said this! I work full time AND go to school full time. I'm tired of being told I'm lazy!
This comment section is overflowing with straw man fallacies. Just don't bother.
Gen X was getting screwed over for much longer than Millennials
most Millennials are the children of Boomers
David Schlessinger My dad is Gen X and he has rosy glasses on about the American dream compared to me.
Can we just agree that both Gen X and millennials got screwed over by the boomers? Don't know why it has to turn into a pissing contest.
The 2008 recession fucked a lot of millennials over because of the flat salary rate we were kept at. I didn't see a raise until 2011. So I could only negotiate at that salary even though I had 3 years of experience.
At least Gen X had the booming late 90s and a president that didn't flush all the country's money into a war just to steal oil or drive up oil prices to get friends rich. The millennials started college with Bush Jr as president and we had so much to look forward to after we graduated, didn't we?
My dad is gen x and it angers me how he's been treated.
is he an older Gen Xer? Born before 1970. Many of these Xers did pretty well
Augh, don't get me started on college. Tons of classes are complete trash and filler, expensive as hell, and don't even get you the job you actually studied for most of the time.
I feel like the reason that the baby boomers are so bitter is because they were settling down, getting married and having kids in their 20s and they're actually jealous of us 😂 we tend to travel more, go to concerts, we still like dress up for Halloween, and we're waiting to get married and have kids until we're much older. They're watching us live life and have fun in our 20s instead of worrying about finding a spouse or having children. Personally, I don't even want to think about getting married or having kids until I'm like 30 if ever. I'd rather live life for me then marry and have a kid with some asshole I'm probably going to hate in 5 years.
Millennials also aren't necessarily taught to work at a young age like older generations. The work ethic that millennials possess is much less tolerant. They want more benefits and perks and higher pay and aren't always willing to get their hands dirty like older generations. I started at 18 at $6 an hour(circa 2000) and now make over $120k/year working my way up.
I'm a millennial and I just bought my first home last year and I have zero debt
"Bought my first home and I have zero debt" ......... LOL people are funny. So you just had a few hundred thousand dollars sitting around?
Depends on location. In rural areas, you could get 2 acres and a home for less than 100k.
"So you just had a few hundred thousand dollars sitting around?"
Maybe he saved for it... on purpose. It didn't just magically happen to be sitting around. Think about this, if you didn't waste money on a 4 year degree and became a plumber when you were 18, lived with your parents and saved most of your salary it wouldn't take that long to be able to afford a house.
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I have 20 employee's and have worked construction for 35 years. You just don't make a few hundred thousand dollars in profit in a few years. Further... He said "Zero Debt" So no Mortgage? If you want to buy a $100,000 Rural house then you get what you pay for.. As over 75% of rural America doesn't even have access to broadband internet along with long commutes to get to work, no connection to city sewers, So Septic tank and well water.
man this is a disaster. I feel super lucky being a ~35 year old male being born in relative security. this is a super big problem, and I don't have any solutions :(
Our Baby Boomer parents could fully own a house before they were thirty and spend the rest of their life paying zero rent!
You can't be mad if someone makes more money and has a better life than you, that's just silly.
+Pepe la trump Your username is typical of baby boomer bitterness, LOL!
I have two bachelors degrees and I just started getting paid 17 bucks an hour. I've been out of school for 4 years and my pay was 13 dollars an hour temp position. 🙄 and companies always wonder why we arent loyal to them.
My job is to perform an invasive procedure in people (venipuncture) and yes that is much more complicated than people think. I went through school to get proper training to not only do the venipuncture, but also do various testing. I took a one semester program that cost more than I make in 3 months wages, and of course had to take out loans to do that. I've been told that I shouldn't complain, because this person or that person worked 2 jobs to pay for their college degree. Even working 2 full-time jobs I would not have made enough to pay for my apartment, car insurance, healthcare, food, or anything. So long story short, it's harder people to make a living and even harder to get education to make a better living that one wouldn't be able to enjoy until after they pay off their loans.
This is sooo true
I see a lot of jobs don’t pay you enough for all the danger and hard work you have to go through!
I get so exhausted sometimes that I must include meditation so I won’t go crazy!
But we must keep it up and work harder and wiser to reach financial freedom, no other way out...
I was hoping for more in depth look but this is definitely a good start. Now adays when I bring up the wages fact the argument is that the majority of small business wouldn't be able to adjust to an increase in minimum wages, or if the job is something like cleaning when someone else is doing a job "more important" than that.
Millenials could also have gotten the GI Bill if they could be bothered to serve their country instead of whining all the time and blaming others for their own failures and bad decisions.
Thank you for sharing this story.
Your highlights look great Ana; we should get some for Cenk. ;-)
this is why i'm even afraid to go to post secondary. i don't wanna get there, spend so much money on loans, spending on textbooks, technology and special courses for 4 years, come out and not get a job? it's terrifying. it feels like my only option is to be in a difficult field or work retail for the rest of my life.
Anna is totally right. In 2015, I bought a gutted renovated 1952 Midcentury in Reseda CA for 1/2Million - and it's a STARTER home in LA.
this is why i feel, as a millennial, like i don't matter in society
i totally agree another thing i have noticed is that no one ever blames the war for it i know friends who dropped out got ged instead of graduating and enlisted thinking that they could get college after they get home from tour didnt happen. not to mention those of us who have children those costs have raised as well its impossible to ever get ahead you end up making choices between working and not seeing your children or not and having to choose between what they need and bills