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- It turns out that Americans under 40 did pretty well during the pandemic-era.
- A new analysis from Liberty Street Economics finds younger Americans saw their net worths swell.
- That might be because their new pandemic stimulus let them invest more.
It turns out that the pandemic was a boon for America's youngest workers.
A new analysis from the Liberty Street Economics blog at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York looks at how wealth changed for different groups from the first quarter of 2019 through the third quarter of 2023. And Americans under 40 did pretty darn well.