首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Forget Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The theme song of this recession might well be "Mother, Can You Write a Check?" The distre
Forget Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The theme song of this recession might well be "Mother, Can You Write a Check?" The distre
admin
2014-12-31
50
问题
Forget Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The theme song of this recession might well be "Mother, Can You Write a Check?" The distressing economy has resulted in increasing numbers of parents and grandparents helping out their strapped adult children and grandkids with home down payments, credit-card bailouts(紧急财政援助), and spare cash—often at the same time as parents are trying to confront new retirement budgets.
"We are seeing a ton of this," says Ross Levin, an Edina, Minn., financial adviser. "Sometimes it’s a great idea and sometimes it is not. You have to make sure you put on your own oxygen mask first."
Some 62 percent of visitors to Grandparents.com have helped their kids financially in the past year, with 70 percent of that group handing over cash to help their adult children and grandchildren with daily expenses, says the site’s CEO, Jerry Shereshewsky. Another popular category is housing; in the last year many parents have coughed up down payments to help their kids get into homes while the $ 8,000 first-time home buyer’ s credit was in effect.
Then there’ s the debt-bailout situation. A survey recently conducted by Creditcards. com for Newsweek found that 42 percent of folks with adult children have helped them pay off car loans, credit cards, medical bills, and more.
None of this is surprising to Shereshewsky, who sees the trend as a natural result of changing families and the distribution of wealth. "This is where all the money is—and it’ s where the money is, despite the fact that we’ ve had this meltdown." In general, the baby-boom generation is far wealthier than their children are, and has a lower unemployment rate than 20-somethings. He says that the vast majority of multi-generation households now involve adult children(and sometimes their children)moving in with aging parents. Baby-boom parents generally aspire to helping their kids and their grandchildren and don’t want to wait until they are dead to do it.
"You should give while you’re young enough to enjoy the fruits of what you’re doing," says Shereshewsky, who is personally considering getting a reverse mortgage on his home when it comes time to help his 20-something kids with home purchases.
What do we know about the people of the baby-boom generation?
选项
A、Most of them prefer to live with their children.
B、Most of them become parents in their twenties.
C、They have a higher employment rate than their kids.
D、They are willing to take care of their aging parents.
答案
C
解析
细节题。作者在倒数第二段中间指出the baby-boom generation is farwealthier than their children are,and has a lower unemployment rate than 20-somethings即婴儿潮那一代的人比他们的孩子更有钱,失业率也比20多岁的人低。故答案为C。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/Bnq7777K
0
大学英语四级
相关试题推荐
Upto80percentoftimespentonlineatworkiswasted,accordingtoanewstudyfromKansasStateUniversity.Itsuggeststhat
Newevidenceofasick,deprivedpopulationworkingunderharshconditionscontradictsearlierimagesofwealthandabundancefr
IntheAmericanfamilythehusbandandwifeusuallyshareimportantdecision-making.Whenthechildrenareoldenough,theytake
There’snobetterfeelinginajobthanwhenyouknowthebosshasfullconfidenceinyou.Youenterazonewhereyoucanreally
Weallliketofeelneeded.Butnewresearchsuggestshavingasenseofpurposeisgoodforourhealth,too.Inastudyof7
Weallliketofeelneeded.Butnewresearchsuggestshavingasenseofpurposeisgoodforourhealth,too.Inastudyof7
A、Fivedaughtersfoughtoverinheritancefromtheirfather.B、Afamilysufferedfromnationalprejudice.C、Pridewasintheway
Whileit’seasyenoughtobrushoffafewsleeplessnightswithapotofcoffeeandtheoccasionaldesknap,youmaybedoingmo
A、Shewasabsentallweekowingtosickness.B、Shewasseriouslyinjuredinacaraccident.C、Shecalledtosaythatherhusband
随机试题
男性,63岁,有食管癌家族史,进行性吞咽困难1个月。下列哪项检查可确诊
形态学和生理学性状相同的细菌群体构成一个()。
依据《危险化学品安全管理条例》的规定,申请危险化学品安全使用许可证的化工企业,应当具备的条件有()。
自由现金储备、留存借贷能力、厂房设备的余力、定型的但尚未推出的新产品等因素决定着竞争对手的()。
甲公司为境内上市公司,2017年甲公司发生的导致净资产变动的交易或事项如下:①接受其大股东捐赠500万元;②当年将作为存货的商品房改为出租,甲公司对投资性房地产采用公允价值模式进行后续计量,转换日,商品房的公允价值大于其账面价值800万元;③按照持股
北斗卫星导航系统是中国自行研制的全球卫星导航系统,它能够提供的服务包括()。
把下面的六个图形分为两类,使每一类图形都有各自的共同特征或规律,分类正确的一项是:()
ThomasMalthuspublishedhisEssayonthePrincipleofPopulationalmost200yearsago.Eversincethen,forecastershavebeing
A、Peoplecanusenearly75percentofit.B、Peoplecanuseabout97percentofit.C、Peoplecanuseexactly3percentofit.D、P
A、About10millionpeopledieofsmokingeveryyear.B、Mostdeathsfromsmokingoccurinhigh-incomecountries.C、Smokingcanbr
最新回复
(
0
)