What to do when financial stability is beyond one’s grasp? Over the past decade, a coterie of pundits and think-tank scholarshave arrived at a surefire answer, a simple one that comes with a snappy title and puts the onus on the individual: pursue the “success sequence.”
The slogan refers to a time-honored series of life events: graduating from high school (at least), getting a full-time job, and marrying before having kids (in that order). As the conservative columnist George Will wrote last year (in a piece headlined, in part, “Listen up, millennials”), “Of the several causes of descent … into the intergenerational transmission of poverty, one was paramount: family disintegration.” He called the success sequence “insurance against poverty” for young adults.
[For more on this story by BRIAN ALEXANDER, go to https://www.theatlantic.com/fa...ess-sequence/566414/]
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