Tag: young adults
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Education is the fastest ticket to a higher income, more opportunities, and a better quality of life. But four-year college is often a tough road for the pioneering first in their families to attend. They have at least two big disadvantages – apart from the well-known financial one. Unlike the teenagers of the highly educated…
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Sky-high city rent, college loan payments, and the low-paying days of an early career are a bad combination for today’s Millennial. Liz Patterson Liz Patterson has solved all that. The carpenter built herself a 96-square-foot house on top of a flatbed truck for less than $7,000 in Manitou Springs, Colorado, a hip neighborhood near Colorado…