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  • For boomers, 309 hours of minimum wage work was all it took to pay for four years of public college. For millennials, it had grown to 4,459 hours.
  • In 1973, the author's father bought his first home at age 29 for $124,000 in today's dollars – which back then was equal to only 20 months of his salary. A similar home in 2018 is $730,000, equal to 10 years of the author's salary.
  • 25-34 year olds lack health insurance more than any other cohort and millennials have more medical debt than their parents.

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Scott Thompson is CEO of Tuition.io, the nation's first and most comprehensive employer-funded student loan contribution platform. Scott's mission at Tuition.io is to expand student debt relief among companies in the US until it becomes the norm, not the exception.

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