"Catch-up in the game of life", the millennium generation addresses the middle age in crisis

US millennia are approaching their middle age with a worse financial situation than all the previous generations living behind, lagging behind baby boomers and Gen X, despite a decade of economic growth and falling unemployment .

Struck by the financial crisis and the recession that hit their business sector, Americans born between 1981 and 1996 have failed to compete with any other generation of young adults born since the Great Depression. They have less wealth, fewer assets, fewer marriages and fewer children, depending on the …