Boomerang Generation

The Average Wedding Costs An Outrageous Amount

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Marriage, Video, The Knot, Money News, Boomerang Generation, Wedding Rates, Cost of Wedding, Wedding Costs, Marriage Rates, Consumer Spending, Income, Weddings, Money News

Mark Zuckerberg just married his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan a day after Facebook's epic debut on the NASDAQ. But most people aren't lucky enou...

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ING Retirement Coach on Graduates' Failure to Launch

Jacob Gold | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: College Students, Retirement Planning, Personal Finance, Financial Advice, Boomerang Effect, College Graduation, Boomerang Generation, Generation Y, College Graduates, Money News

The beauty of the boomerang is that after sending it off, it comes right back to its original destination. In the case of parents sending their children to college -- or the workforce -- and having them return home, the effect might not have the same "beauty."

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Want To Avoid Student Debt? Think Twice About State Schools

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: State Budgets, Video, Unemployment, State Budget Cuts, State College, State Budget Crisis, State Schools, College, Student Debt, Boomerang Generation, Ivy League, Financial Aid, Job Market College Graduates, Student Loans, College Graduates, Money News

Student debt weighing on your mind? You might be surprised about where the worst of it comes from. A recent Reuters analysis of student debt at var...

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Seven Ways to Straighten Your Boomerang Child

Richard Barrington | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Personal Finance, Boomerang Generation, Unemployment, Young Adults, Retirement, Savings Accounts, Budget, Moving in With Parents, College Graduates, Parents News

Most parents are more than willing to make sacrifices for their children, and will make accommodations for them when they are in need. However, when young adults return home, it shouldn't be to experience a second childhood.

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Never Too Old To Get An Allowance From Mom And Dad

The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Multi-Generational Housing, Financial Help From Parents, Allowance, Financial Assistance, Rent, Gen Y, Boomerang Generation, Living at Home, Adult Allowance, Poll, Parents, Money News

Living at home, doing chores and getting a regular allowance. Not much has changed since middle school--except that this describes nearly 20 percent o...

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Who Are the Joneser Boomers Keeping Up With?

Bernard Starr | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, The Brady Bunch, Leave It to Beaver, Baby Boomers, Social Change, Social Security, Jones Generation, Bankruptcy, Downsizing, Television Ratings, Economy, Boomerang Generation, Economic Crisis, Adolescents, Mortgage Crisis, Pensions, Jonathan-Pontell, Recession, New Wave, Disco, Television, Marriage, Young Adults, Saving for Retirement, Jonesers, Watergate, Jfk, Fifty News

If you think the Wall Street protests are formidable, watch out when the boomers fully wake up to their plight and mobilize. Then you will know: It's one solid generation to reckon with.

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Home for the Hard Days

Nobu Massiah | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: Youth Unemployment Rate, Unemployment, Kids Returning Home, Youth Unemployment, Boomerang Generation, Black Voices News

The real truth is that I'm just another statistic of the recession. Forty percent of twenty-somethings will move back in with our parents at least once. And we'll change jobs an average seven times before we reach age 30 -- which for the record is the beginning of the end.

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Tips For The Boomerang Generation (From The Only CEO Who Still Has A Curfew)

Stephanie Kaplan | Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: hercampus.com, College Graduation, Boomerang Children, Boomerang Generation, Boomerangers, Job Market College Graduates, College Graduates, Her Campus, College News

I graduated from Harvard a year ago with honors, admission to a prestigious graduate school, and multiple job offers on the table. Yet one year later I'm living at home with my parents... and I have been since I graduated.

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The Budget Cut and the "Boomerang Kids"

Colin Barnicle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Education, Fy-2012-Budget, Student Debt, College Costs, Budget Cuts, President Barack Obama, Boomerang Generation, Graduate School, Student Loans, Obama-2012-Budget, Education News

The problem with proposed budget cuts to education is that families are going to have to spend a ton of money in a time of belt tightening if they want their children to shoot for the stars.

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Full Nest Syndrome? More Young Adults Living With Parents

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Boomerangers, Full Nest Syndrome, Boomerang Generation, Young Adults Living at Home, Reuters, College News

More than 50 percent of young Americans age 18 to 24 are living at home, according to a new study. Reuters has more: "Unfavorable employment conditi...

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Please, PLEASE Empty My Nest Syndrome

Jilly Gagnon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Comedy Job Hunt, Cnn, Comedy and Satire, Allowance, Passive-Aggressive, Kids Moving Back Home, Moving in With Parents, Humor, Satire, Boomerang Generation, Boomerangers, Babysitting, Family Game Night, Parental Units, Comedy, Humor and Satire, Job Hunt, Comedy News

Thank god for CNN; without its desperate need to fill a 24-hour news cycle, the world might never learn that one out of every eight 25-34-year-olds has now moved back in with mom and dad.

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Who Says You Can't Go Home?

Carey Polis | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Suburbs, Quarterlife, College, Boomerang Generation, Quarterlife Crisis, Post-Grad, Generation Y, Parents, Generation Gap, Healthy Living News

I know very few people who are truly happy with their post-college lives. But, as much as I want to conveniently use the term "quarterlife crisis," it's not what's going on.

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Failure To Launch

Christine Hassler | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: 20-Something Manifesto, The Balanced Life, Christine Hassler, Boomerang Generation, Healthy Living News

Dear Christine, I'm 26 years old and in a rut. I don't really like my career path, but don't know what else to do. Money is tight and I don't have a...

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