Why the Covid-19 economy is particularly devastating to millennials, in 14 charts

Millennials still recovering from the Great Recession now face a downturn that’s being compared to the Great Depression.

The economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic is immense, with tens of millions unemployed and the US economy shrinking at a rate unseen in more than a decade. Global financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund are warning that Covid-19 could trigger a global economic slowdown comparable only to the Great Depression.

One of the groups likely to suffer the most is millennials, many of whom have yet to fully recover from...