{"id":86770,"date":"2026-02-22T14:44:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T14:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/gen-z-feels-left-behind-as-debt-low-wages-and-housing-costs-crush-the-american-dream\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T14:44:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T14:44:23","slug":"gen-z-feels-left-behind-as-debt-low-wages-and-housing-costs-crush-the-american-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/gen-z-feels-left-behind-as-debt-low-wages-and-housing-costs-crush-the-american-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen Z feels left behind as debt, low wages and housing costs crush the &#8216;American dream&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young adults in the US are facing more financial hurdles than their parents.<br \/>\nGen Z, that&#8217;s mostly adults under age 30, <!--more--> are having a harder time being able to afford education, healthcare and housing.<br \/>\nRecent data reflects a stark difference between how younger and older Americans feel about their financial prospects.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Heidi Zhou-Castro reports from Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/AJSubscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/AJSubscribe<\/a><br \/>\nFollow us on X: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEnglish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEnglish<\/a><br \/>\nFind us on Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aljazeera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aljazeera<\/a><br \/>\nCheck our website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/<\/a><br \/>\nCheck out our Instagram page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aljazeeraenglish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aljazeeraenglish\/<\/a><br \/>\nDownload AJE Mobile App: <a href=\"https:\/\/aje.news\/AJEMobile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/aje.news\/AJEMobile<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#US #GenZ #AmericanDream #StudentDebt #CostOfLiving #YouthUnemployment #HousingCrisis #HealthcareCosts #USEconomy #WealthInequality #FinancialSecurity #AlJazeeraEnglish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young adults in the US are facing more financial hurdles than their parents. Gen Z, that&#8217;s mostly adults under age 30,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}