For the lower and middle classes, expenses keep getting more expensey and wages seem not to budge.

Incomes https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2018/10/1...

Housing https://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/24/home-prices-rising-faster-th...

College Tuition https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/29/how-much-college-tuition-has...

Of course the economy for the millionaires and billionaires has been booming. A great time.

The article focuses on teens. What's a teenage summer job actually worth these days? It's not going to make any kind of dent in college tuition. And there really no need to get one if you aren't driving... (Which ties into other stats in the article.)

I opted out of driving in the late 90s because getting a shite car to go to a shite job to pay for the shite car looked like a terrible deal. The pay at the dairy queen hasn't gotten much better in the last twenty years, and it sounds like the kids aren't seeing the value in the car as much as my peers did.

"The economy" is doing fine, but that's not a very interesting bunch of numbers for most people. The private economy of the majority US households has been getting steadily worse for decades.