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March 24, 2017

Strange But True!

Q. Have you heard that many young adults these days are choosing to stay sober? Why might that be?

A. The factors are many and varied, but “it's impossible to ignore the role of new financial pressures,” says Jon White in New Scientist magazine. “Millennials (those born between the early 1980s and mid 1990s) in many places are loaded with student debt, have faced recessions, are living in an era of greater job insecurity, widening income inequality and also rising housing costs.”


 
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