Yes, AOC, your generation has seen American prosperity
by Michael Barone
| June 19, 2019 12:00 AM
“An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity.†So says Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., whose visibility as a spokeswoman for this generation has been boosted by political friend and foe.
Of course, Ocasio-Cortez misspoke. It’s ridiculous to say that someone who grew up in and worked in metropolitan New York City “never saw American prosperity.†Those high-rise buildings didn’t appear through spontaneous generation. Somebody put up the money to build them.
What Ocasio-Cortez surely meant was that Americans born about 1989 and coming of age about 2007, the year she graduated from Yorktown High School in suburban Westchester County, haven’t seen much economic growth in their professional lifetimes.
In 2007, the year the Great Recession hit, layoffs skyrocketed and job openings plummeted. College graduates faced bleaker prospects than their counterparts a few years before, and jobs for young, non-college males seemed to disappear.
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