Have you heard how young people suffer now?

Scroll TikTok, Instagram, etc., you see the same message: "Young people today can't get ahead!"

One popular meme says when baby boomers like me were young, "A family could own a home, a car, and send their kids to college, all on one income."

"That's a fantasy," says economist Norbert Michel. "We are much better off than we were."

My new video takes the meme's claims one by one, starting with "a family could own a home."

On social media, many young people say things like, "Most people don't live in houses because it's too expensive."

Yes, homes cost more now, but census data show more Americans own their homes now than when I was a kid.

And today's homes are much bigger and twice as likely to have central air, dishwashers, garbage disposal

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