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Your Money and Your Life

Your Money and Your Life: Twenty-Somethings

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Twenty-Somethings

30/07/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Your Money and Your Life, Twenty-Somethings

Louise Cooper explores the big decisions for people in their twenties.

Louise Cooper explores the new realities of adulthood, as experienced by people in their twenties.

In a four-part series, Louise Cooper considers the financial and emotional dimensions to the most important decisions we make in our lives.

Today's 20-somethings are less likely to have achieved the traditional markers of adulthood that their parents had at their age, such as leaving home, getting married or buying a house.

In this episode, we hear from young people, after University, forced into living with their parents, reliant on the so-called bank of "Mum and Dad" or struggling to save for a mortgage deposit as their earnings are eaten up by sky-high rents. Experts describe how financial life has changed from a "linear" trajectory - birth, school, work, career, marriage, home ownership, children, work, retirement, death - to one that is much more complex. 

Next week - thirty-somethings. 

Presenter:Louise Cooper
Producer: Ben Carter
Editor:Andrew Smith.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Louise Cooper considers the financial and emotional dimensions of life's big decisions.

Louise Cooper considers the financial and emotional dimensions of the most important decisions people make in their lives.

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