FINANCIAL TIMES: The percentage of Americans aged 25–34 living with their parents has reached a record high pic.twitter.com/M7mkhDVq0e
— Neet News (@NeetNewsClips) August 4, 2026
A record number of adult children under 35 in the U.S. are moving back in with their parents, either because they can’t afford homes of their own or because they want to save money amid the rising cost of living, according to a recent study.
In 2025, 25.2 million adults under 35 lived at home, according to Realtor.com, which found that the share of adults living with their moms and dads was higher than it was during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Many of these adults moving back in with their parents are employed, but their wages aren’t keeping up with inflation. Among the 25- to 34-year-olds living at home, roughly 7 in 10 have jobs, the online real estate firm found.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/record-adult-children-moving-in-with-parents/
The American Dream once came with an actual finish line. For much of the 1950s and 1960s, the script was simple enough for a child to understand. You worked hard, stayed loyal to your employer, and bought a modest home. Then, somewhere around 65, you retired with enough dignity to enjoy your remaining years. Retirement was the final reward for showing up, day after day, year after year. That promise has been dismantled piece by piece, transforming the American Dream into a cruel form of comedy where the joke is always on the worker.
Today, retirement is less of a life stage and more of a fairy tale parents tell their kids to help them sleep at night. According to recent data, 42 percent of Americans over 60 believe they will literally work until they die. Far from being pessimistic, they are, in many ways, responding to reality. There are already a record 11.6 million Americans aged 65 and older still punching the clock. While corporate PR teams love to profile the occasional 72-year-old who greets people at Walmart, it’s a poor substitute for an honest assessment. For millions, it’s Plan B after Plan A was sacrificed to stagnant wages, disappearing pensions, and decades of economic promises that somehow always benefited everyone except the people doing the actual work.
https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/labor/6003046-ai-impact-job-market/