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Tuesday, February 21, 2006 12:00 AM

The losing generation

A new book says that minimum-wage jobs and mounting debt are burying America's youth.
By Sarah Karnasiewicz

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  • Monday, February 20, 2006 07:19 PM

    Debt

    It's a good thing for both Republicans and Democrats that their children can't read numbers nor understand history. If they could see what the Republicans are doing, and the Democrats are letting them do, children would rise up and smother their parents in their sleep. The individual debt that Generation Debt has personally incurred is chump change compared to the national debt that their parents will leave them as an inverse birthright.

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