Gen Xers should be thriving. Instead, they're drowning in debt.

• There's been much discussion over Gen Zers' and millennials' economic outlooks and views.
• But Gen Xers might be suffering in silence as the most financially insecure generation.
• They're spending the most right now, and piling on debt.

Amidst all of the commotion about Gen Z shaking up the workplace, millennials trapped in lifestyles they can't afford, and boomers thriving, there's the forgotten generational middle child: Gen X. And, like some fellow middle children, they might be suffering in silence right now.