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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2016
Congressional panel releases
critical Cover Oregon report
Goodbye, empty nest: Millennials
staying longer at home with parents
Sharp shift
relects decline
in marriages
By CHRISTOPHER
S. RUGABER
AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON — Many
of America’s young adults
appear to be in no hurry to move
out of their old bedrooms.
For the irst time on record,
living with parents is now the
most common arrangement for
people ages 18 to 34, an anal-
ysis of census data by the Pew
Research Center has found.
Nearly one-third of millen-
nials live with their parents,
slightly more than the propor-
tion who live with a spouse or
partner. It’s the irst time that
living at home has outpaced
living with a spouse for this age
group since such record-keep-
ing began in 1880.
The remaining young adults
are living alone, with other
relatives, in college dorms,
as roommates or under other
circumstances.
Fewer marriages
The sharp shift relects a
long-running decline in mar-
riage, ampliied by the economic
upheavals of the Great Reces-
sion. The trend has been particu-
larly evident among Americans
who lack a college degree.
The pattern may be a con-
tributing factor in the slug-
gish growth of the U.S. econ-
omy, which depends heavily
on consumer spending. With
more young people living with
their parents rather than on their
own, fewer people need to buy
AP Photo/John Amis
Members of the graduating
class and faculty attend
the Savannah College of
Art and Design commence-
ment in Atlanta.
appliances, furniture or cable
subscriptions. The recovery
from the 2008-09 recession has
also been hobbled by histori-
cally low levels of home con-
struction and home ownership.
As recently as 2000, nearly
43 percent of young adults ages
18 to 34 were married or living
with a partner. By 2014, that pro-
portion was just 31.6 percent.
In 2000, only 23 percent of
young adults were living with
parents. In 2014, the igure
reached 32.1 percent.
The proportion of young
adults now living with their
parents is similar to the propor-
tions that prevailed from 1880
through 1940, when the ig-
ure peaked, Pew found. Yet in
those decades, the most com-
mon arrangement for young
adults was living with a spouse
rather than with parents.
“We’ve simply got a lot
more singles,” said Richard
Fry, lead author of the report
and a senior economist at the
Pew Research Center. “They’re
the group much more likely to
live with their parents.”
The typical U.S. woman
now marries at 27.1 years old,
the typical man at 29.2, accord-
ing to census data. That’s up
from record lows of 20.1 for
women and 22.5 for men in
1956.
“They’re
concentrating
more on school, careers and
work and less focused on form-
ing new families, spouses or
partners and children,” Fry said
of the millennials.
Associated Press
SALEM — A Republi-
can-led U.S. House commit-
tee has found former Gov.
John Kitzhaber and a federal
agency mishandled the cre-
ation of Oregon’s health insur-
ance enrollment website, with
the Democratic governor’s
political advisers making deci-
sions based on his re-election
campaign.
In a staff report released
Wednesday, the Republicans
on the committee said they
are asking the Justice Depart-
ment and state attorney general
to conduct criminal investiga-
tions into the actions involving
Cover Oregon.
“More than $305 million in
federal taxpayer dollars were
sent to Oregon state for pur-
poses of implementing a state
exchange to beneit the peo-
ple,” the committee said in a
letter to U.S. Attorney Gen-
eral Loretta Lynch. “The state
exchange never came to frui-
tion, and the money is gone.”
Jobs and wages
Among young men, declin-
ing employment and falling
wages are another factor keep-
ing many of today’s 18-to-34-
year-olds unmarried, Fry said.
The share of young men with
jobs fell to 71 percent in 2014,
the report found, from 84 per-
cent in 1960 — the year when
the proportion of young adults
living outside the home peaked.
Incomes have fallen as well:
Wages, adjusted for inlation,
plunged 34 percent for the typ-
ical young man from 2000 to
2014.
Other factors contribut-
ing to the trend of living with
parents range from rising
apartment rents to heavy stu-
dent-debt loads to longer peri-
ods in college.
Many analysts had expected
that as the economy improved,
younger adults would increas-
ingly move out on their own.
That hasn’t happened. Jed
Kolko, a senior fellow at the
Terner Center for Housing
Innovation at the University of
California, Berkeley, says soar-
ing rents are discouraging some
millennials from leaving their
parents’ homes.
The Republican-controlled
Committee on Oversight and
Government Reform said its
investigation showed state ofi-
cials misused federal money
and improperly commingled
oficial and political resources
to enrich the Kitzhaber’s polit-
ical prospects. However Dem-
ocrats on the panel blamed
the state’s contractor, Califor-
nia-based Oracle Corporation,
for the website’s problems.
In their own report released
Wednesday Democrats say
Oracle failed to deliver a func-
tioning website and misled
state oficials.
Oregon produced the coun-
try’s worst rollout of the new
national health insurance pro-
gram. While the crippled
federal website eventually
worked, Oregon’s failed to
enroll a single person online.
The state had to resort to hir-
ing 400 people to process
paper applications.
The Centers for Medicare
& Medicaid Services’ “failed
oversight of the development
and implementation of Cover
Oregon resulted in millions
of wasted taxpayer dollars,”
the committee said. The fed-
eral agency should reform its
grant and oversight process, the
panel said.
The committee said docu-
ments and testimony it obtained
are consistent with the indings
of the Government Account-
ability Ofice, a congressional
watchdog agency. The com-
mittee report also noted Cover
Oregon is not unique.
“Several other states have
had signiicant problems
developing and implementing
a health insurance exchange,”
the report said.
An email seeking comment
from Kitzhaber early Wednes-
day morning through his ian-
cée, Cylvia Hayes, wasn’t
immediately returned. Repre-
sentatives of CMS also didn’t
immediately return a request
for comment. A representative
for Oracle didn’t immediately
return a phone call and email
seeking comment.
County court adds six advocates for kids
The Daily Astorian
The
Clatsop
Court
Appointed Special Advocate
(CASA) Program recently
announced six new volun-
teers have joined in serving
abused and neglected chil-
dren in the Clatsop County
child welfare system.
Clatsop County Circuit
Court Judge Paula Brownhill
conducted the swearing-in
of the volunteers earlier this
month, who participated in
nearly 40 hours of training.
There are 50 active CASA
volunteers in the count.
The volunteers are the
only participants in the child
welfare system who speak
solely for the child’s best
interest in making informed
recommendations to the court
and advocating for services
in the child welfare system,
according to the program.
They work to achieve
a safe, permanent and lov-
ing home for each child, as
soon as possible.
Current volunteers are
serving more than 80 chil-
dren each year. There is still
a waiting list of children who
need an advocate.
Volunteer training will be
held again in October. Those
interested can contact Chel-
sea Bergman or Ann Lederer,
Program Managers, by call-
ing 503-338-6063, email-
ing casa@clatsopcasa.org, or
visiting our website: www.
clatsop-casa.org.
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Krueger
has
previ-
ously built the Edgewa-
ter at Mill Pond apartments
in Uppertown and the Yacht
Club Apartments at the north-
ern end of the Old Youngs
Bay Bridge.
Consultant Mike Weston,
who is representing Krueger,
said a community and traf-
ic impact analysis was per-
formed. They approached local
utilities, developed a walking
path to the school, have agree-
ments with the sewer district
and plan to provide 267 park-
ing spaces.
“You have the makings of
a vibrant community within
a couple miles of downtown
Astoria,” Weston said.
The project application
was accompanied by letters of
support from Astoria Mayor
Arline LaMear, Astoria School
District Superintendent Craig
Hoppes, Astoria-Warrenton
Chamber of Commerce Exec-
utive Director Skip Hauke
and Clatsop Economic Devel-
opment Resources Director
Kevin Leahy.
In addition, the Oregon
Department of Transportation
and Clatsop County Public
Works have signed off on the
work.
“The proposed apartment
project in the Miles Cross-
ing area would be a godsend,”
LaMear wrote in a letter of
support. “(It) would greatly
assist in meeting the needs
for affordable housing in both
Astoria and in Clatsop County
as a whole.”
Opposition
Nearly a dozen neighbors
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“If they use up all of the
sewer hookups, is that going
to put a moratorium on sewer
hookups for the rest of the
vacant lots that are trying to
build there someday?” Lind-
berg said.
A condition of the project
application will be for Krueger
to provide documentation of
sewer service for each phase
of the construction, according
to county staff.
Dairy farmer Brad Cowan,
who works on 700 acres along
Lewis and Clark Road, raised
concerns about hundreds of
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spoke in opposition at the hear-
ing in the Astoria City Council
chambers.
Lisa Lindberg, a Miles
Crossing resident, questioned
how Krueger has an agree-
ment with the sewer district,
when the district’s rules state
it does not allow multifamily
dwellings.
Others called the agree-
ment a “sweetheart deal,” and
warned if the sewer hookup
is not done correctly it could
trigger issues with the state
Department of Environmental
Quality.
new residents moving into the
farmland without any appre-
ciation or understanding of
agriculture.
Cowan often rides his
farming equipment slowly
down the road, and won-
ders how that will work with
more people on the road-
way. He worries about get-
ting complaints from the new
neighbors when the east wind
blows over the smell of cow
manure and shrimp waste.
“High-intensity housing
does not belong in the Lewis
and Clark area,” Cowan said.
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