I'm 28 and compared to my parents I have it easier. I believe it really depends on if the previous generation gave you a leg up to start with. My folks came from lower middle class families, paid their own way through school and moved out west for jobs. I came from a middle class family, and didn't have to pay for education or move across the country for work.
Another part of it is life choices people make. People who gravitated towards careers that they considered enjoyable, probably make a trade-off with regards to financial stability. It probably also depends where you are trying to enter the workforce. It's much easier to find a steady well paying job in Alberta than it is in Ontario or Quebec. Folks my age out east probably have it worse than their parents because the economic conditions are much worse than they were then.
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