For the most part, WAR BABIES, BOOMERS, and GEN-Xers graduated from high school or college and got jobs, didn't expect to get 6 figure salaries right off the bat, did NOT go home and live with and off mommy & daddy...unlike the majority of over schooled, under educated Millennials!
Oh sure, there are exceptions, in ALL generations, but over all, what I said is why Millennials get such a drubbing here and in real life.
I can't find hard data on where 20-24 year olds lived over time. However, the
St Louis FRB's FRED database shows the current unemployment rate for 20-24 year olds is the lowest it has been since before the 2001 recession and right before the 1974 Energy Crisis. Yes, the current 20-24 yr old UMP is higher than that in the later 1960s and most of the 1950s. But the current crop of 20-24 year olds sure seem to be relatively better employed than at most recent time periods.