What Do 'Mama's Boys' Have to Do With the Euro Debt Crisis?
Feb. 17, 2012
This chart plots the relationship between the price of default insurance on selected European countries and their degree of male "boomerangness" -- what percentage of male adult children 25-34 live with their parents: the Mama's Boy Index.


The 17-country monetary union known as the eurozone finds itself on precarious footing 13 years after the currency came into existence in 1999. European countries drowning in debt. Governments enacting austerity programs. Unemployment rising. Follow all of NewsHour's coverage of the eurozone financial crisis here.
Social Security was originally designed as a "pay-as-you-go" system in which each succeeding generation of workers is supposed to take care of the last. all workers are charged a "payroll" tax, as are their employers. (The employee half has been suspended again until Feb. 29.) That money is supposed to provide for today's retirees.













