February 9, 2006
Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
Glickman-Miller Hall, Atrium

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Strapped offers a groundbreaking look at the new obstacle course facing young adults as they try to build careers, buy homes and start families.

It's hard to believe: “Today's college grads are making less than the college grads of thirty years ago.” In fact, men aged 25 to 34 with bachelor's degrees are making just $6,000 more than those with high school diplomas did in 1972. This is just one of the many shocking statistics uncovered by Draut, a think-tank adviser and media pundit, in this incisive and revealing look at why today's young adults find financial independence so difficult.
–Publisher’s Weekly

Why is it getting harder for young people to get ahead?
Join us to hear Tamara Draut speak on her latest work, Strapped: Why America’s 20- and 30- Somethings Can’t Get Ahead and find out how she thinks we might bring about solutions to this problem in America.

Tamera Draut, Director, Economic Opportunity Program at DEMOS
Author, Strapped: Why America's 20- and 30-Somethings Can't Get Ahead
Daniel Gray Kontar
Hannah Fritzman