Money | college graduates Welcome to the Real World; It Stinks Class of 2010 has dim prospects and unrealistic expectations By Marie Morris Posted May 17, 2010 1:56 PM CDT Copied Amanda Groszk, 22, of Highland Heights, Ohio dances as she and fellow Boston University graduates process into their commencement ceremony, Sunday, May 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds) A meeting with a childhood friend of his twentysomething son—an Ivy League grad making $250 a week as an intern with a street fair—got Joe Queenan thinking. His inescapable conclusion: the millennials are screwed. "With the obvious exception of youngsters born during the Great Depression," Queenan writes for the Wall Street Journal, "no generation in American history faces more daunting obstacles." People born from 1980 to 2000 are utterly unprepared for the disastrous economy, 17% unemployment in the 20-to-24-year-old cohort, and the demographic burden that awaits them. "Who's going to support Baby Boomers as they suck the Social Security system dry while wheezing around Tuscany? Gen Y," writes Queenan. "Reality is a mean trick that grown-ups play on the young. You really have no idea how awful this is going to be." Read These Next Two state troopers were shot in Pennsylvania JD Vance in hot water over birthday boating trip. Kelly Clarkson's ex died a day after she disclosed he was ill. Trump is demanding a 'new' census. Report an error