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Why You Should Stop Bashing Millennials

When you break it down, Millennials are actually doing pretty well.

Millennial bashing is so last year. Time and time again stats have shown that Millennials actually do face real-world struggles, from ballooning housing prices to stagnating wages to crushing student loan debt. The realities Millennials face these days are completely different than those of their predecessors, and that often translates to completely foreign struggles with no frame of reference to go by. When you break it down, Millennials are actually doing pretty well.

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