{"id":73310,"date":"2019-12-10T06:35:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-generational-divide-millennials-gen-xers-and-boomers-can-avoid-holiday-debt-with-this-advice\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T07:36:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T11:36:17","slug":"brecha-generacional-los-millennials-la-generacion-x-y-los-boomers-pueden-evitar-las-deudas-del-fin-de-ano-si-siguen-estos-consejos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/brecha-generacional-los-millennials-la-generacion-x-y-los-boomers-pueden-evitar-las-deudas-del-fin-de-ano-si-siguen-estos-consejos\/","title":{"rendered":"Generational Divide: Millennials, Gen Xers and Boomers Can Avoid Holiday Debt with this Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Dec. 10, 2019<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0What do Millennials, Gen Xers and Baby Boomers have in common? Not much, except that they all rack up debt this time of year. With each generation having its unique financial issues, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2665490-1&amp;h=2867542665&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.consolidatedcredit.org%2F&amp;a=Consolidated+Credit\" rel=\"nofollow\">Consolidated Credit<\/a>\u00a0is offering specific advice.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg735bleft\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg735bleft\" title=\"When Debt is the Problem, We are the Solution...\" border=\"0\" alt=\"When Debt is the Problem, We are the Solution...\" align=\"middle\" imagelabel=\"General\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/528613\/Consolidated_Credit_Logo.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Consolidated Credit analyzed four years of debt management program data and found that Millennial enrollments are at an all-time high and have an average of <span class=\"xn-money\">$13,000<\/span> of debt on their program. Although Gen X has the highest average debt load put on a program, Millennials surpass Baby Boomers as the second most enrolled generation. <\/p>\n<p>With consumer <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2665490-1&amp;h=4253775522&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.consolidatedcredit.org%2Fcredit-card-debt-relief%2F&amp;a=credit+card+debt\" rel=\"nofollow\">credit card debt<\/a> almost <span class=\"xn-money\">$1.5 trillion<\/span>, Millennials are facing pressure to pamper their children while paying off student loans. Baby Boomers, who are in or headed towards retirement, make up 35 percent of their clients and have more than <span class=\"xn-money\">$15,500<\/span> of debt on their program. Leading the pack are the current &#8216;sandwich generation&#8217;.\u00a0 Gen Xers enroll in the debt management program at the highest rate and have the highest debt load at over <span class=\"xn-money\">$16,000<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was said that Millennials aren&#8217;t using credit cards at the same pace as past generations, but they now make up a third of our clients base,&#8221; says <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2665490-1&amp;h=4148476032&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Faprillewisparks%2F&amp;a=April+Parks-Lewis\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"xn-person\">April Parks-Lewis<\/span><\/a>, Consolidated Credit&#8217;s education director. &#8220;Now that Millennials have grown-up and are starting families, they&#8217;re facing credit card debt in addition to high student loan debt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The holidays are the worst time for family budgets \u2013 but possibly the best time to create peace across generational lines. All members of the family can lend a hand in saving by tackling spending. <\/p>\n<p><b>Holiday tips for the ages:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Millennials should give the gift of financial literacy. Steward the next generation by helping your kids understand the value of money and help them curb expectations this holiday. <\/li>\n<li>Gen Xers, who do most of their holiday shopping online, need to comparison shop and consider giving gifts of &#8220;experiences&#8217; \u2013 like group travel, cooking classes and other activities where family and friends can be together. <\/li>\n<li>Baby Boomers should use tech to help them manage their finances. They need to use money-saving apps like camel-camel-camel, RetailMeNot, and interactive <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2665490-1&amp;h=1764877086&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.consolidatedcredit.org%2Fbudgeting-made-easy%2Fholiday-budget%2F&amp;a=holiday+budget+planners\" rel=\"nofollow\">holiday budget planners<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>About: Consolidated Credit is a non-profit 501\u00a93 organization that has helped over 7 million people over 26 years. Their mission is to assist families throughout <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span> to end financial crises and solve money management issues through education and counseling.<\/p>\n<p>Logo\u00a0&#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2665490-1&amp;h=1357667346&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F528613%2FConsolidated_Credit_Logo.jpg&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F528613%2FConsolidated_Credit_Logo.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/528613\/Consolidated_Credit_Logo.jpg<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  Consolidated Credit<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Dec. 10, 2019<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0What do Millennials, Gen Xers and Baby Boomers have in common? Not much, except that they all rack up debt this time of year. With each generation having its unique financial issues, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2665490-1&amp;h=2867542665&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.consolidatedcredit.org%2F&amp;a=Consolidated+Credit\" rel=\"nofollow\">Consolidated Credit<\/a>\u00a0is offering specific advice.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;div&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-negocios-y-finanzas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}