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President Obama and Governor Romney: It's Time to Speak With Our Generation

NextGen Journal | Posted 10.28.2012 | Politics
Read More: Hispanics, Future Forum, Univision, Forum, Youth, Generation, Millennials, Romney, Young Voters, Obama, Election, 2012, Youth Vote, 2012 Young Voters, Obama Youth Vote, Romney Vote, Politics News
NextGen Journal

In any report about young voters and the 2012 election, you may have stumbled upon a few of these descriptions: "disengaged," "unenthusiastic," "disillusioned." Speaking on behalf of students across the country: it's a fair critique.

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Generation Overload

Uloop | Posted 09.09.2012 | College
Read More: College Students, Social Media, Generation, Facebook, Technology, College, Computers, College News
Uloop

We are the generation of change. Our modes of technology have changed; our modes of communication have changed.

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The Clash of Generations

Laurence J. Kotlikoff | Posted 07.25.2012 | Politics
Read More: Yuan, Inflation, Dollar, Debt, Generation, Fiscal Policy, Currency, Dollar Inflation, Politics News
Laurence J. Kotlikoff

As we sit back and blithely watch Greece's death by debt, it's easy to assume it can never happen here. It can, and it will.

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Is American Idol Ageist?

Brent Green | Posted 07.24.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Generation, Aging, Susan Boyle, Britian's Got Talent, American Idol, Baby Boomers, Phillip Phillips, Fifty News
Brent Green

Older artists can achieve extraordinary dreams if given a chance.

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Intergenerational Equity: The Mother of All Guilt Trips

Brent Green | Posted 07.21.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Social Security, Entitlement Programs, Generation, Greenspan Commission, Medicare, David Walker, Unfunded Liabilities, Baby Boomers, Intergenerational Equity, Healthcare, Fifty News
Brent Green

To what extent are post-50 adults financially obligated to future generations?

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Why Post 50 Males Must Resist Becoming "Standardized Old Men"

Brent Green | Posted 05.07.2012 | Fifty
Read More: David Cogswell, Existentialism, Baby Boomer Men, Walt Whitman, Friedrich Nietzsche, Brent Green, Generation, Baby Boomers, Post 50 Men, Boomers, Huffpost 50, Fifty News
Brent Green

This is a generation that has never settled for outdated traditions, and collectively men over 50 will create new images of male aging. The sociology of Boomer male aging has vast implications for business, from edgy new products to inspired services.

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You Say You Want A Devolution

www.vanityfair.com | Posted 12.20.2011 | Fifty
Read More: History, Entertainment, Design, Regurgitation, Generation, Innovation, Fashion, Pop Culture, History-Repeats-Itself, Nostalgia, Fifty News

For most of the last century, America’s cultural landscape—its fashion, art, music, design, entertainment—changed dramatically every 20 years or...

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The Clash Of The Generations: 'Boomers' Vs. 'Millennials'

www.theatlantic.com | Posted 12.20.2011 | Fifty
Read More: Resources, Competition, Baby Boomers, Economy, Generation, Millennial Generation, Technology, Neil Howe, Generation Gap, Ecnomic Crisis, Fifty News

GREAT FALLS, Va.--Economist and demographer Neil Howe sells himself as an expert on generations. He argues that when people are born determines the cu...

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What Happens When Millennials Come Together

David D. Burstein | Posted 12.10.2011 | College
Read More: Oscar Morales, Social Impact, Summit, Globalization, Millennial Generation, Facebook, Conference, Wael Ghonim, Global, Cairo, David D. Burstein, Egypt, Colombia, Millennials, Generation, Farc, Technology, One Young World, College News
David D. Burstein

We're the first generation to spend all of our grown years in a world where connecting to people from all over the world, instantly and constantly, seems normal and natural.

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'Think Different'

Jalees Rehman, M.D. | Posted 12.05.2011 | Religion
Read More: Creativity, Steve Jobs, Apple, Social Networking, Technology News, Society, Death, Conformity, Icon, Revolution, Generation, Iphone, Ipad, Religion News
Jalees Rehman, M.D.

In many ways, Steve Jobs was the embodiment of the Apple advertising slogan "Think Different".

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Youthless Churches And The Arab Spring: A Generation of Ideas, not Ideology

Frank Fredericks | Posted 11.29.2011 | Religion
Read More: Religion, Church, Youth, Millenials, Tahrir Square, Generation, Arab Spring, Ideology, Christianity, Youth in Church, Religion News
Frank Fredericks

Our faiths were not faltering; instead, our churches were failing to engage with young people in a way that is relevant for them.

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Deflated Barista Generation

Jim Neal | Posted 11.15.2011 | College
Read More: Starbucks, College Students, Underemployment, Unemployment, Student Loans, College, Generation, College News
Jim Neal

Living in a community loaded with talent from major universities I'm all too aware of the pressures that students feel to pursue degrees in law or business.

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Amanda M. Fairbanks

Newly Graduated and Scrambling For Full-Time Jobs

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 06.15.2011 | College
Read More: Unemployment, Graduates, Work, College, 20-Something, Underemployment, Jobs, Full-Time, Part-Time, Generation, College News

NEW YORK -- For David Cristello, the jobs are catch as catch can. Cristello, 23, currently holds down five part-time jobs. Come summer, when h...

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A Call to Black Families

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Call to Action, Youth, Children, Child Watch Column, Teens, Marian Wright Edelman, Child Watch, John Hope Franklin, Generation, Black, Adults, Families, Black History Month, Impact News
Marian Wright Edelman

Our families have seen us through many crises, but there have also been threats to black family stability and reports of black family breakdown throughout our history.

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Vote for Me?

Cody Brotter | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: Russ Feingold, Youth Vote, Taylor Gang, Wiz Khalifa, College, Apathy, Mark Felt, Adrien Grenier, Generation, Panda Bowls, Comedy, Election, Voting, College News
Cody Brotter

No seriously, like, as a favor. As if I had asked you to get a "sandwich for me." I'm just always super tired on Tuesdays. In the November 2010 elect...

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A Funeral on My 50th

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: John Lennon, Milestones, Wwii, Birthdays, Smolenyak, Generation, Genealogy, Immigrants, WWII Veterans, Family History, Japan, Funeral, Healthy Living News
Megan Smolenyak

Born twenty years to the day after John Lennon and married the day before 9/11, I need no calendars or tickler systems to remind me of the milestone b...

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What the New York Times Missed About "20-Somethings"

David D. Burstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: David Burstein, Young People, Youth, Nytimes, Gen Y, Ohio, Millennials, Generation, New York Times, 20somethings, Pragmatic Idealism, Millennial Generation, Recession, Gen Next, Wilmington, Impact News
David D. Burstein

The New York Times article, "What Is It About 20-Somethings" has missed the amazing success stories of so many in this generation, and the unprecedented levels of accomplishment and achievement of so many of its members.

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The Internet's Love Affair with WebTV

Ramon Nuez | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: Google, Tyranny, Move, Commodity, Popularity of the Internet, Content, Social Web, Video Podcasts, Popularity, Href, Broadband Network, Democratization, Tv Partnership, Nyt, Tv Programming, Broadband, Video, Apple, Nielsen, Plan, Broadband Technologies, Neutrality, Hulu, Ugc, August, Battle, WebTV, Apple TV, Independent Tv, Webtv, Net Neutrality, Mile, Independent Programming, Net, Web, Internet, Generation, Paradigm, Phenomenon, Year, Technology News
Ramon Nuez

Information is a commodity. It's an article of trade that is valued above all other products and services. Information has always been coveted but con...

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New Documents Show Increased Cancer Risk For Baby Boomers Afte Nuclear Testing

Politics Daily | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Baby Boomers, Cancer Deaths, Aging, Nuclear Weapons, Cancer Rates, Generation, Nuclear Testing, Nevada, Cancer, Cancer Risk, Cold War, Healthy Living News

Even with a half century's hindsight, the U.S. government's willingness to risk the health of the nation's children seems somewhere between unfathomab...

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The Real Magic of Michael

Jim Selman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Michael Jackson, Generation, New York Post, Service, Death, Michael Jackson Death, Legacy, Entertainment News
Jim Selman

Michael Jackson's most important gift was that he allowed so many people to love him, to find in their sense of wonder and delight a bit of their own magic.

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YouTube and MySpace Leaves "No Space" for a Generation

Francesca Biller | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Ipod, Baby Boomers, Myspace, Exhibitionism, Burning Bras, The War in Iraq, Cell Phone Cameras, Psychologists, Madison Avenue, Self-Esteem, Text Messaging, 1970's, The Vietnam War, Dick Cavett, Character, 1960's, Boob Jobs, Richard Nixon, Apathy, Techno Babysitters, Walter Cronkite, Generation, Youtube, Self-Expression, Therapists, Healthy Living News
Francesca Biller

A generation suckled on the need to be constantly seen and heard leaves a generation that is heard and seen, but doesn't listen much.

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On Principle, The Presidency Is Not for Average Folk

Lance Simmens | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: John McCain, Commercials, Better Future, Bumper Stickers, Elected Leaders, Gerald Ford, Generation, Obama, Candidate, Election 2008, Beer Track, Politicaly Party, Politics News
Lance Simmens

We have become a wistful electorate, intoxicated by the elixir of irresponsibility that I can only guess traces back to the gee-whiz, by golly folksiness of Gerry Ford.

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GOP Warms To Al Gore's Cause

Politico | Jim VandeHei and John F. Harris | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Generation, Global Warming, Republicans, Politics News

Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.), once a skeptic of global warming, got a hint that the political winds might be shifting when a longtime supporter warned tha...

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