What millennials need most of all are deep structural reforms to our retirement system. The steeply rising costs of health care and benefits for retired boomers will be a huge drag on the economy. The solutions are obvious: encourage people to prolong their working lives, gradually increase the eligibility age for retirement benefits, and introduce more means testing for benefits - including health care - that flow to the affluent.
But that would take real guts and heavy lifting.
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