Criminal justice reform, student loan debt, and job opportunities are just three of the many concerns plaguing millennials according to a new report by Generation Opportunity.
“We did this in response to President Obama’s State of the Union Address,” said Patrice Lee of Generation Opportunity to Red Alert Politics on Thursday. “As millennials we helped to elect him and we’ve seen what happened, which is a lot of broken promises and we are no better off than before.”
Among the most important issues facing millennials, Generation Opportunity cited a declining labor force participation rate, higher levels of poverty, fewer home owners, and stagnant wages.
“What we find here is that 48 percent of millennials think that the American Dream is dead,” said Lee.
The study finds that government regulation has imposed barriers on millennials to prevent them from earning more, getting better jobs, and starting their own businesses.
Despite millennials feeling that they might find prosperity through a Bernie Sanders style approach of larger government, the fact tell a different story.
“So we hear a lot about the system being rigged against poor people,” she continued. “It’s also rigged against millennials, rigged against young people. If you look at the national debt other than us, even the promises of free healthcare, free college tuition, that is going to be paid for by us.”
Lee argued that much of the same kind of cronyism that’s waged against poor people is also waged against young people but the only real solution is more freedom and less government.
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