Strapped: Why America’s 20- and 30-Somethings Can’t Get Ahead

by Tamara Draut

This is a great book for anybody who is 20 to 30 years old, or who has children and wants to understand how and why it is that the financial deck is stacked so steeply against society’s newest adults. In a nutshell, boomers have written a set of laws that assure all of the current economic surplus flows to them, leaving very little for the next generation.