‘I know my age group has called the young lazy, entitled snowflakes,’ says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee, who has been writing for the Guardian for nearly 50 years. ‘But I know whose side I’m on and it’s not my own generation’s.’
Polly believes that the social contract between younger and older generations has been broken, with gen Z and millennials set to be worse off than their parents in the face of soaring unemployment, stagnating wages and ballooning house prices.
New research carried out for the BBC suggests that people in their 20s are facing a worse start to adulthood than any other generation in almost half a century, with more than 40% of 25-year-olds now living with their parents.
Read more:When it comes to marriage and divorce, is gen Z the sensible generation? | Van Badham | The Guardian
Watch to find out why Polly thinks her generation owes the younger ones an apology – and how they can right these wrongs
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