No Home, Retirement, Kids: How Gen Z-ers See Their Future

Elizabeth Swan is a teacher. Her dad was a teacher. Her aunt was a teacher. “I went to school to teach during a time we were told, ‘There’s a teacher shortage. You will always have a job and be in high demand.’ And that has simply not been true,” Swan, a 27-year-old Illinois resident, told me. She is licensed to teach middle and high school history and social studies yet has been able to find only a substitute position that pays her $32,000 a year. She’s in a long-term relationship with a software engineer, and they each live with their families in the south suburbs of Chicago. Read Full Article »