WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH 2020Focus on millennial finance
masks wider money worries
Single parents and older women are among the most likely to face hardship (Getty)
FELICITY HANNAH
It’s easy to see debt and financial worries as a generational issue. Millennials are often singled out as the
unlucky generation – hit by a multitude of factors including university fees, high rents and high house
prices.
But here’s a growing core of people of every age group who are facing real financial hardship. People
struggling is not a new phenomenon, of course. There have been poor people of every age as long as society
has existed.
It is undeniable that people under 40, those born between 1981 and 1996, are finding finances hard. New