Student debt holding Americans back from wealth, even high-earning millennials

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A recent study revealed many so-called “HENRYs,” or “high earners not rich yet” feel like they’re living paycheck to paycheck.

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Boomer says:

The issue is living beyond their means and trying to keep up with everyone else. A Henry living in a average apartment, driving a average car, living like a college student until he or she pay off the debt would be set for life. But they don't do that. They get prideful and spend more than they need to. I'm not beating up on these high earners. The poor and average earners do it too, but high earners tend to be pretty disconnected concerning how good they really have things. It's all about the mentality.

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pep says:

Put anything in front of geriatric Joe and he will sign it. It's all worked great for those really in charge of the country so far. Weekend at Bernie's!

pep says:

Hey old white hippie black savior lady. You never mention that student loans need to stop first. How can the government forgive loans, when they give out 1000's of new student loans everyday? You're a phony and a joke.

pep says:

There would be less of a White Student debt problem. Old white savior lady for blacks makes sure she lets you know that she is down with blacks are victims talk and must be mentioned specifically, but whites are not worth mentioning specifically. You're a racist.

Joy Austin says:

These people don’t know how to budget

Marion Loesch says:

I live off of 19,000 a year. I would love to see those people live with my income.

Tactical headlamp with strap says:

I’d rather be uneducated in a dead end job. But out of debt able to collect assets.

Ralphie Man says:

Can't pay…then don't sign on the dotted line. Simple solutions….make stupid life choices, deal with it…next.

Shady Bitch says:

“In essence for instance,”

Decipher Code says:

I can't belief the reporter used the offensive word "Homo" culture to refer to gay lifestyle.

Jessica Smith says:

It seems like most of these HENRYS are spending more than they earn. With a lot of people, once they start making more they spend more even using credit cards to pay for lavish expenses. There lies the problem.

Laura P. says:

No social media = no fomo

Laura P. says:

I wanna be a Henry. Im just fucking poor

Laura P. says:

The average Henry lmao

Clara James says:

I think planning ahead is the best. I will be starting my college degree soon and paying back my loan or at least not find it hard to pay back wouldn’t be a problem when the time is right. I earn around 2k dollars weekly trading crypto and I intend saving my profits for that future purpose

Kevin Stone says:

The HENRYs seem like a bunch of assholes. Let them starve if they want to pay their debts.

Matt M says:

This really irks me because they make it seem like millennials all have six-figure jobs and are just to financially stupid to know how to budget. Really the majority of people struggling to pay off student loan debt are people who make $30,000/yr trying to pay off $100,000 in student loans while they struggle between deciding to pay for rent or food this week those are the people living paycheck-to-paycheck.

Sam Sung says:

Millennial here…I'm fixing to make my last student loan payment from my first attempt at attending a real college but didnt get to finish because life happens. I still only make minimum wage (20k annually) …. You can whine all you want but if I can make the sacrifices to pay down debt then so should the HENRYs.

The Patriot says:

lmao!!! Henrys!!! Haha, more like working class idiots. Get disciplined, you little shits, and learn to delay pleasure and pay back your debts!

huntleyt08 says:

Who is this boomer?

007thematrix007 says:

@ 2:34 she got a guy's voice

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