By Dan Weil The 2008 financial crisis and the covid pandemic have caused significant damage to younger people’s finances. The 2008 financial crisis and the covid pandemic have hammered the finances of young people. “Millennials [born 1981-96] and Generation Z [born 1997-2012] have experienced constant economic uncertainty,” said Michael Hershfield, Chief Executive of payments service Accrue Savings. His comments accompany an Accrue survey about personal finances among generations. As for millennials, “entering the job market during a massive economic downturn, they have struggled to gain finan…