Money
$530,000median Utah home (was $169k in 2000)Utah Assoc. of Realtors; Utah Business
≈ $120,000/yrone paycheck for a wife + 5 kids in Utah. Median full-time Utah man earns ≈ $67kOur estimate; Census ACS
$1.28 trillionU.S. credit card debt, at about 22% interestNY Fed; Federal Reserve G.19
$1.7 trillionowed in student loansFederal Reserve
Marriage & Family
≈ 50%of all marriages end in divorce (2nd ≈ 60%, 3rd ≈ 73%)CDC/NCHS, Pew, APA estimates
63% vs 34%of young men vs young women (18–29) are singlePew Research, 2023
21 → 28.6women's first-marriage age, 1970 → today (men 23 → 30)U.S. Census Bureau
≈ 1.6kids per woman, a record-low U.S. birth rateCDC
Health & Work
$26,993/yrfamily health insurance through a job (worker pays ≈ $6,850)KFF, 2025
77%of 17–24-year-olds can't qualify for the military without a waiverPentagon QMA study
−13%jobs for 22–25-year-olds in AI-exposed fields (like coding and customer service) since 2022, while older workers in the same fields held steadyStanford Digital Economy Lab, 2025