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It Can Happen Here: The Screwed Generation in Europe and America

Here’s a tribute to futility: today a majority of unemployed Americans age 25 and older attended college, something never before seen.

In Madrid you see them on the streets, jobless, aimless, often bearing college degrees but working as cabbies, baristas, street performers, or–more often–not at all. In Spain as in Greece, nearly half of the adults under 25 don’t work.

Call them the screwed generation, the victims of expansive welfare states and the massive structural debt charged by their parents. In virtually every developed country, and increasingly in developing ones, they include not only the usual victims, the undereducated and recent immigrants, but also the college-educated.

by Joel Kotkin

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