God forbid these 20-somethings live with their families than burden the taxpayers by going on welfare.
Whereas all the seasoned citizens getting SS checks are on welfare.
I'll offer a thought here.
We are disquieted by this story because it departs from our sense of traditional norms.
The traditional norms, however, did not include a uniformly liberal set of university faculties nationwide who have made it their lives' work to increase their own pay far beyond the rate of inflation.
Who pays for that? Students, and an enormous amount of debt. That debt is what makes today's world different from "traditional norms". It's not about housing, or food or gasoline. It's about student debt. A bright young person today either goes into huge debt or he or she does not get a degree. Period.
That's a really tough choice.
I graduated from college and moved back home with my mother.
To start graduate school where I could get a part time job, pay for my own classes/books, and still earn my MA before joining the workforce. I saved a TON of money in what would have been student loans for living expenses, and I drove the same vehicle I had when I was 16.
If I had not gone back to school, I would have been independent though.