Don’t Be Embarrassed About Moving in With Your Parents
Between the economy and the bungled Covid response, more people than ever are living with their folks again
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Anyone with sense could have foreseen that a racist con man whose opinions are largely shaped by the bullshit he watches on Fox News would be a disaster as president — but almost none of them could have predicted the degree of chaos contained in one year alone. Yet, of all the awful things that have happened this year due to America’s failure to contain the Covid-19 outbreak, one ongoing worry of mine has been how so many young people have had to move back home through no fault of their own.
This month, a new analysis from the Pew Research Center found that in July, 52% of young adults resided with one or both of their parents — a more than 10% increase since February. Those 26.6 million people mark the first time since the Great Depression that a majority of young adults live with their parents. That new reality should have stunned the nation when it was revealed earlier this month, but America didn’t even flinch.
I can sort of understand why.
