Sign of our times:
85% of College Grads Move Back Into Their Parents’ Home
CNN Money, Boomerang Kids: 85% of College Grads Move Home:
Getting a degree used to be a stepping stone to limitless career opportunities. Now it’s more of a hiatus from living under your parents’ roof.
Stubbornly high unemployment — nearly 15% for those ages 20-24 — has made finding a job nearly impossible. And without a job, there’s nowhere for these young adults to go but back to their old bedrooms, curfews and chore charts. Meet the boomerangers. …
“This recession has hit young adults particularly hard,” according to Rich Morin, senior editor at the Pew Research Center in DC.
So hard that a whopping 85% of college seniors planned to move back home with their parents after graduation last May, according to a poll by Twentysomething Inc., a marketing and research firm based in Philadelphia. That rate has steadily risen from 67% in 2006.
October 16, 2010 in Legal
Wonder how many of these kids voted for this kind of “hope and change?”
We are going to return to the 1950s when it was not uncommon to have three generations living under one roof.
