20-somethings in UK face exorbitant housing costs, weakening job prospects and heavy load of debt

Youngest workers in UK face a bleak economic future

30 July 2023 - 16:01 By Kwaku Gyasi

Sticky inflation, rising bills and the fastest set of interest rate hikes in a generation have plunged the UK into a deep cost-of-living crisis. For Britain’s youngest workers, the pain stretches deeper; the country’s adult Zoomers, now in the first half of their twenties, face a toxic cocktail of exorbitant housing costs, weakening job prospects and a heavy load of student debt...

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