Fear Your Future

How the Deck Is Stacked against Millennials and Why Socialism Would Make It Worse

Philip Klein (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2019 | First Edition, First Edition, First Edition, 1
Templeton Foundation Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-59947-573-8 (ISBN)

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It’s become fashionable to demean millennials as the “snowflake” generation. Raised during the peace and prosperity of the ‘90s, they’re often perceived as carrying an entitlement mentality and being incapable of handling adversity. But Philip Klein sees them differently. Given the economic headwinds they faced at the start of their working lives, millennials have shown commendable fortitude. And as Klein argues, they will need to maintain this character strength going forward because further challenges loom in their future.
The aftershocks of the Great Recession, the skyrocketing cost of living, and the titanic weight of student loan debt have made the American Dream seem to be forever retreating toward the horizon. As if that weren’t enough, millennials will face the largest federal debt in history as boomers retire and extract trillions of dollars from Social Security and Medicare—far more than they contributed.
In this concise, data-driven book, Klein begins the work of brightening the future for millennials by analyzing the problem compassionately yet objectively. There are real reasons to worry about what lies ahead if nothing changes. But the facts laid out in Klein’s book can steer the conversation to realistic solutions.

Philip Klein is the executive editor of the Washington Examiner. He formerly served as the Examiner's managing editor and commentary editor. Prior to that, he was a Washington correspondent for the American Spectator and a reporter for Reuters. He is a graduate of George Washington University and holds a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. He is the author of Overcoming Obamacare: Three Approaches to Reversing the Government Takeover of Health Care.

Introduction / 3
Part 1: Fear Your Future
1: Unprecedented Burden / 9
2: The Generational Wealth Gap / 41
3: The Ghost of Millennials’ Future / 83
4: The Anti-Youth Lobby / 99
5: The Socialism Trap / 123
Part 2: Dissenting Points of View
6: Millennials: America’s Luckiest Generation by David Harsanyi / 141
7: Fear Less by Ramesh Ponnuru / 149
8: A Response to David Harsanyi and Ramesh Ponnuru / 155
Acknowledgments / 161
Notes / 163
About the Contributors / 183

Erscheinungsdatum	27.10.2019
Reihe/Serie	New Threats to Freedom Series
Zusatzinfo	36 illustrations
Verlagsort	Radnor
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 178 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-59947-573-1 / 1599475731
ISBN-13	978-1-59947-573-8 / 9781599475738
Zustand	Neuware