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Youth Seek Voice In Health Care Debate

The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Young Invincibles, Young Voters, Rock the Vote, Youth Vote, Millenials, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Barack Obama, League-of-Young-Voters, Politics News

Young voters were instrumental in helping elect President Obama but since then they've felt largely ignored by the political process. Now a number of ...

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Is Obama's Health Care Maelstrom the Birth of Millennial Politics?

Maegan Carberry | Posted 09.05.2009 | Home

Read More: David Bromwich, Community Organizing, Millennial Generation, Millenials, Health Care, Barack Obama, Peter Daou, Home News
Maegan Carberry

Obama introduced us to a new kind of politics. Veterans of the old guard aren't sure how to handle it while the emerging young leaders who built it haven't established enough clout to reinforce it.

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The Millennials are Coming

Jason Rae | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Millenials Voting, Student Vote, Grassroots Activism, Millenials, Millenials-Optimism, Democrats, Politics News
Jason Rae

Millennials. You may have heard the term. Those born after 1977 are more optimistic, service-oriented and progressive than Gen X'ers.

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The GOP's Challenge to Win Back Young Voters

Kristen Soltis | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Millenials Voting, GOP Youth, Gop, Youth Vote, Millenials, Gop Youth Vote, Politics News
Kristen Soltis

The idea that the GOP can get all of their members to sign up for Twitter, flip its position on gay marriage and suddenly have young voters rushing to join the party misses the point.

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Millennials' New Mantra: Have Less, Imagine More

Bob Jeffrey | Posted 05.21.2009 | Living

Read More: The Silent Generation, Millenial Generation, Millenials, Great Depression, Me Generation, Living News
Bob Jeffrey

The Millennials are now inheritors of one of the greatest collapses of collective judgment this century has seen. Are they in denial, in disappointment or simply in disbelief?

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Coming of Age: The Collaborative Generation

Jim Selman | Posted 05.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Wisdom, Millenials, Wwii, Great Recession, Collaboration, Generation OMG, Generation Gap, U.S. Economy, Economic Recession, Economy, Economic Crisis, Recession, Living News
Jim Selman

Many young people are learning to be more flexible, to live more in the moment, and to be more creative and less "attached" to their plans than generations who grew up in other times.

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Twitter Tweets Up Brazil's Digital Divide

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 04.26.2009 | World

Read More: Law Berners-Lee, Google, Russia, Globo, Pdsb Steve Jobs, India, Flashmob, Twitter, Berlusconi, France, Serra, Orkut Azeredo, Latin America, Data Mining, Sentiment Mining, Facebook, Twitterati, Internet Privacy, Millenials, Epoca, Lula Edelman, Marketing, David+Weinerger, China, Brazil, World News
Eric Ehrmann

Twitter, the trendy message service that can eat up your privacy faster than a school of piranhas, is flaunting Brazil's tough Internet laws in an effort to mine digital gold.

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How Millenials Will Save the World

Adlai Wertman | Posted 04.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Philanthropy, Social-Enterprise, Poverty, Millenials, Charity, Social Entrepreneurship, Nonprofit Sector, Nonprofits, Foundations, Living News
Adlai Wertman

Twenty-somethings are not beaten down by the economy or the heaviness of the air. Rather they are encouraged, excited and ready to go.

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Why the Youth Vote Is the Big Story -- For 2008 and for Decades to Come

Eric Greenberg and Karl Weber | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: The Internet, Jews, John McCain, Youth, Youth Vote, Barack Obama Youth Vote, Web, Hispanics, Facebook, Obama Young People, Barack Obama, Internet, Obama Youth Voters, Millenials, Obama Youth Vote, Voters, Obama Youth, Technology, African-Americans, Myspace, Politics News
Eric Greenberg and Karl Weber

We'd like to state the case for the youth vote as being crucial in understanding the Obama victory and what it means for the future. The youth vote deserves a lot of respect in its shaping of the electoral map.

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Generational

JL Silverman | Posted 01.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Google, Mtv Generation, Youth, Economy, Jobs, Millennial Generation, Facebook, Dot Com, Job Market, I Want My Mtv, Millenials, Working, Work Force, Youtube, Dotcom Boom, Generation Y, Business News
JL Silverman

The corporate ladder has rearranged itself like the staircases at Hogwarts. Now, twenty year olds can make a fortune with the Internet -- YouTube, Facebook, Google.

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Optimism We Can Believe In

Frank Cooper III | Posted 01.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Financial Crisis, Baby Boomers, Pepsi Generation, Gen X, Millenials, Optimism, Barack Obama, Millenials Optimism, Politics News
Frank Cooper III

Our recent survey discovered that despite the recession and the impact it is already having on jobs and long-term prospects, the Millennial generation may be the most optimistic.

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Obama and the Reinvention of Democracy

Don Tapscott | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: E-Democracy, Web 2.0, Internet, Net Generation, Don Tapscott, Millenials, Gen Y, Web 2.0 Politics, Millennials, Obama Transition, Democracy, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, Obama Digital Townhall Meetings, Obama Technology, change.gov, Obama Supporters, Obama White House, John D. Podesta, President-Elect Obama, Politics News
Don Tapscott

President-elect Obama's mobilizing the millions of young people who supported his presidential campaign to help him as he prepares to govern a troubled country.

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Barack's Ballyhooed Youth Brigade Should Be Asking: "Dude, Where's My Congress?"

John Seery | Posted 12.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: House, Generation Obama, Generation O, Senate, Millenials, Age, Old People, Age Requirements, Barack Obama, Voting, Politics News
John Seery

The 111th Congress, when it convenes on January 6th, will be the oldest in our nation's history. Each of the last five Congresses has, successively, set a new record as the oldest our country has ever seen.

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Greenspan's Model

Aaron Greenspan | Posted 12.04.2008 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Autism, Alan Greenspan, Millenials, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Economic Crisis, George W. Bush, Autism Health Care, Bush Administration, Stem-Cell Research, Wall Street Crisis, Congressional Bailout, Cuyahoga County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, Health Care, Ccbmrdd, Business News
Aaron Greenspan

After an excruciatingly long wait, we are finally at the end of a dark era in our nation's history.

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The MySpace Election... and Beyond

Chris DeWolfe | Posted 11.29.2008 | Media

Read More: Internet, John McCain, Youth Vote, Millenials, Social Networking, 2008 Election, Myspace, Barack Obama, Generation Gap, Voting, Media News
Chris DeWolfe

A campaign no longer has the luxury of thinking of the Internet as an afterthought, but rather it must be a major part of the strategy of every campaign from president down to student body president.

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Why Obama's Inevitable Presidential Win Proves That the Millenials' Time Has Come

Andrew Jenks | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Young Voters, Youth Vote, Millenials, 2008 Election, Politics News
Andrew Jenks

Why Senator Obama Can Thank My 22 Year Old Friends And Me For Helping Him Win The Election and Why His Inevitable Presidential Win Proves That The Mil...

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When Politics Became The New Hip Hop

Barry Michael Cooper | Posted 11.15.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Gop, Mccain, Obama, Hip Hop, Dnc, Barack Obama, Palin, Baby Boomers, Millenials, Election 2008, Entertainment News
Barry Michael Cooper

I don't know if he or the Republican Party understands that it is the culture of Hip Hop that has directly -- and indirectly -- fueled the youth movement behind Barack Obama.

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I Worked My Butt off in School and all I Got was this Crappy Economy

Brett Ashley McKenzie | Posted 10.23.2008 | Style

Read More: Economy and Young People, Wall Street Crisis, Millenials, Economy, Ecomony, Style News
Brett Ashley McKenzie

Shouldn't people be applauding that 26 year-olds even have retirement funds, when the average American has about $8,000 in credit card debt? The first lesson fiscally responsible Millennials are learning is, "sucks to be you!"

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A New Age for Individual Service

Tom Nelson and Usher Raymond IV | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Civic Duty, Aarp, Baby Boomers, New Look Foundation, Millenials, Servicenation, Volunteers, HuffPost Inauguration Ball, Politics News
Tom Nelson and Usher Raymond IV

Younger Americans in the millennial generation, many of whom went to schools that required service to graduate, are better prepared for civic engagement than any other generation in our history.

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One Millenial Speaks Out: Why I'm Enrolling in Culinary School

Sophie Brickman | Posted 09.26.2008 | Style

Read More: Food, Technology, Millenials, Culinary School, Cooking, Style News
Sophie Brickman

I find myself wanting to run away from this tech-savvy world where people sit at computers in their offices and communicate with others, three feet away, through G-chat.

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Online and Off, Millennials Redefine Civil Rights Activism

Tanene Allison | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rally, Millenials Voting, Millenials, Online Organizing, Lawrence King, Politics News
Tanene Allison

Many believe that if Millenials are online activists and information seekers, we are not also at rallies or organizing at our schools. This is just patently untrue.

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Real Change Happens Offline

Sally Kohn | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Community Organizing, Community Values, Youth Vote, Election, Internet, Ronald Reagan, Millenials, Activism, Youth Activism, Politics News
Sally Kohn

Internet activism is individualistic: It's great for a sense of interconnectedness, but the Internet does not bind individuals in shared struggle the same as the face-to-face activism of the 1960s and '70s did.

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Obama's Millennials -- 83 Million Strong

Paul Abrams | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Millenials, Barack Obama, Young Voters Obama, Young Voters, Politics News
Paul Abrams

Although not of that generation himself, Obama fits the millennials' needs and aspirations -- his very life is a testimony to their worldview.

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What's A Millennial To Do?

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 04.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Finance, Journalism, Business School, Millenials, Automotive, Career Advice, Media, Public Relations, Advertising, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

God created youth for people to do what they wanted to do. When you get a little bit older, life closes in on you and, caught in a variety of strictures produced by our ambitions, desires and needs, we each take on responsibilities that require us to do a bunch of stuff we donÂ’'t wanna.

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