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How wealth gaps show up in everyday conversations

My college friends casually talk about their parents buying them cars and I still send money home every month to help with rent.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Economic disparity reveals itself through casual assumptions about family as resource rather than responsibility.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with First-generation identity?”

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