Millennial Generation

'I Want To Be Part Of A Generation That Doesn't Lose Steam'

Michelle Castellanos | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Kurt Cobain, Obama Barnard, Baby Boomers, Boomers, Social Engagement, Social Change, Millennial Generation, Millenials, Teen News

My generation has to pick up where the previous one left off. Not only do we have to fix the problems of our generation, but we also have to finish what the boomers started.

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$1,000,000,000,000: How Did We Get Here?

Jennifer Mishory | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Interest Rates, Student Loan Interest Rates, Debt, Student Debt, Cost of Higher Education, Millennial Generation, Higher Education, Student Loans, Paying for College, Student Loan Debt, Cost of College, Politics News

Despite the trajectory of debt, this generation of college graduates holds better economic prospects than their non-college peers, but with the drag of debt, interest, and the unforgiving lenders holding them back for decades to come.

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5 Ways to Talk to Your Mom About Your Love Life

Jessica Massa | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Fifty Shades of Grey, Twitter, Dating Advice, Post-Dating World, Kindle, Romance, Mother's Day, Pinterest, Dating, Adele, Motherhood, Millennial Generation, Facebook, Technology, Love, Texting, Mothers and Daughters, Women News

Share enough to convince her that just because you aren't "dating" someone in a way that she easily understands doesn't mean you are romantically doomed or considering another sexual orientation.

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A New Generation Debuts: Plurals

Michael Hais and Morley Winograd | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Gloria Steinem, Civil Rights Movement, Alan Ginsberg, Reverend Martin Luther King, James Dean, Beat Generation, Plural Generation, Millennial Generation, Business News

Evidence of the arrival of America's newest adaptive generation has surfaced in recent research, which is beginning to define how and why this latest Adaptive generation differs from the older Millennial Generation.

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Which Age Group Is Driving New Car Sales?

HuffingtonPost.com | Sharon Silke Carty | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Baby Boomers, AARP Magazine, Millennials, Aarp, Cars, Jeep, Millennial Generation, Auto Sales, Auto Industry, Money News

Automakers are striving to reach new customers these days: While it's baby boomers who have the most money and willingness to spend, carmakers are wor...

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Getting By With A Little Help From Mom And Dad

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Young Adults Parents Financial Help, Financial Help, Financial Help Parents Young Adults, Video, Young Adults, Young Adults Parents, Parents Young Adults, Young Adults Financial Help, Millennials, Young Adults Financial Help Parents, Millennial Generation, Parents Young Adults Financial Help, Financial Help Young Adults Parents, Financial Help Young Adults, Money News

Here's another sign that young people are struggling to make it on their own. Of young adults between the ages of 19 and 22, 62 percent rely on fin...

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What Student Debt Looks and Feels Like From a Graduate's Perspective

Matthew Ross Smith | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Average Student Debt, Student Loan Debt, Student Loans, Student Debt, Paying for College, Student Loan Interest Rates, College Costs, Millennials, Millennial Generation, Money News

I offer this screenshot as a small window into what student debt looks and feels like from the graduate's perspective. Just look at the "Amount Applied to Interest Column." Half a decade worth of payments later, I still owe over $1,000 more than the original amount I borrowed.

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Note to 2012 Candidates: Have a Plan for Your Young Constituents

Rory O'Sullivan | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: U.S. Economy, Youth Vote, Millennial Generation, Higher Education, Youth Unemployment, Childcare Costs, Candidates, Affordable Housing, Young Voters, 2012 Election, Millennials, Elections 2012, Politics News

Any serious candidate running for political office should have a real youth agenda. Our generation deserves no less, and the future of our country depends upon it.

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Why the Student Loan Interest Rate Debate Matters

Jennifer Mishory | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Interest Rates, College, #Dontdoublemyrate, Millennials, Millennial Generation, Higher Education, Student Loans, Obama Student Loans, Federal Student Loans, Student Debt, Student Loan Interest Rate, Student Loan Debt, Politics News

This generation needs higher education more than ever, even as the cost grows increasingly out of reach. From a youth perspective, the guiding principle for the debate is simple: Give all Americans a fair shot at the middle class, at the American Dream.

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Not Your Older Brother's MLS: Soccer Matters America

Jason Grill | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: National Football League, Major League Soccer, Millennial Generation, Mls Statistics, Mls Ratings, Mls, Mls Popularity, Video, Sports News

Major League Soccer is a league and a sport that is on the rise, but where does it go from here? Can it overtake America's "national pastime," baseball?

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American Dream 2.0: A Silicon Valley Entrepreneur's Take on Hope

Jonathan Chin | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: New Generation, Innovation, The American Dream, Dreams, Millennial Generation, American Dream, Chicago News

It took me getting invited to Chicago and imagining my grandfather coming there to reexamine the concept of the American dream. These tough economic times have driven many people to forget or even to mock it.

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It's Time for a Presidential Youth Council

Alex Wirth | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Cncs, White House, Arne Duncan, Youth Vote, Youth, Service, Millennial Generation, Youth Voice, Impact News

The federal government must open opportunities for young people to be decision makers nationally, just as communities across the country are already doing.

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Fellow Millennials, Listen Up: The Case for Personal Responsibility

Mari Fagel | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Pbs, Millennial Generation, Unpaid Internships, New York Law School, Charlie Rose, Responsiblity, Millenials, Culture News

You can't blame a school because you spent thousands of dollars of tuition money and didn't get the job you wanted because, at the end of the day, it was your own choice to go to school.

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Best Jobs For Young People Are Those That 'Can't Be Done By A Robot'

Reuters | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Generation Y Jobs, Health Care Jobs, Video, Best Jobs, Reuters, Business News, Jobs, Millennial Generation, Best Jobs Young People, Generation Y, Jobs for Young People, Business News

(Adds updated link to website) NEW YORK, March 20 (Reuters) - Young people looking for a job with good pay, flexible hours and job sec...

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Escape From the Job Jungle

Peter Weinberg | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Recent College Graduates, Unemployment, Jobs, Job Hunting, Job Market College Graduates, Job Hunting Advice, Job Market, Unemployment Rate, College Graduates, Job Hunt, Millennials, Millennial Generation, Money News

I applied to 53 jobs in July, according to the tally marks I carved into my parents' dining room table while playing the harmonica. But the big sack I bought to hold all my salary never filled up, and I began to suspect something just wasn't right.

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Study Finds Millennial Generation Less Generous Than Boomers

Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Millennial Generation Study, Video, Millennial Study, Millennial Giving Back, Millennial Facts, Millennial Generation, Millennial Statistics, Millennial Generation Statistics, Business News

After analyzing 40 years of data on approximately 9 million young adults, researchers have found the so-called Millennial generation to be less enviro...

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A Young Person's Debate

Alex Wirth | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Millennial Generation, Social Security, Entrepreneurship, Social Security Benefits, Nasi, Social Security Cuts, Millenial, Social Security Reform, Politics News

Young people are worried Social Security will not be there for them and are looking for other options to ensure their future economic security. My generation doesn't want to be paying into a system from which we won't receive anything.

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Why It's A Lousy Time To Be A Twenty-Something

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: Young Worker Salary, Income Gap, Student Debt, Millennial Generation, Student Loans, Recession, Young Workers, Millennials in the Workplace, Gender Gap, Video, Young Adults, Pay Gap, Great Recession, Millennials, Gender Pay Gap, Wage Gap, Generation Y, Business News

Attention, young workers: It's not your imagination. Your're underpaid. Wages for employees in their twenties took a sharp dive during the past de...

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Returning to the Nest Is Costly

Reid Cramer | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Housing Market, Return to the Nest, Millennials, Great Recession, Millennial Generation, Job Market College Graduates, Recession, College Graduates, Politics News

Since the Great Recession began, 7 million more Americans are living in doubled up arrangements. The trend for young adults was particularly dramatic.

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'What's Chauvinism?'

Jayanti Tamm | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Literature, Generation X, Millennial Generation, Teaching, College, Feminism, Gop Primary 2012, Sexism, Generation Gap, Women News

An uncomfortable silence filled the classroom. No one had started writing a response to the question I had written. Finally, one student raised her hand."What does 'chauvinist' mean?"

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Students Do Change Over Time... and That Is Not a Bad Thing

Anthony Otero | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Technology in the Classroom, Technology in Education, Millennial Generation Education, Millennial Generation, Higher Education, Education, Millennials, College News

The general state of the students has changed. Technology has enabled my students to plan their future in a way I could never imagine.

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The Hook-up Generation

Patricia Vanderbilt | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Hooking Up, Millennial Generation, Hook-Up Culture, Hookup Culture, Hookup, Sex, Millennials, College Students, Whitman College, Relationships, College Relationships, College Lifestyle, College, Millennial Relationship, College Life, Casual Sex, College News

Hook-up culture creates a strange binary: on the one hand, students are having casual sex. On the other hand, students are having no sex at all. With the exception of an occasional long-term relationship, there is virtually nothing in-between.

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Generations X and Y: Grit, Freedom and Triumph

Elizabeth Blackney | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Music Industry, Millennial Generation, Hunter Hayes, Generation Y, Terrorism, Country Music, Generation X, Act of Valor, Impact News

They are the children of Baby Boomers, Generation Jones and GenXers. More than anything, Generation Y are fearless creators of content.

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A Minute With... David Jones

David D. Burstein | Posted 04.24.2012

I first met David Jones at the One Young World summit in Zurich where I saw these principles in action. I recently spoke with him about Who Cares Wins and his overall argument that holds that in the 21st century, businesses need to "do good" and "do well" in order to survive and thrive.

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The Millennial Generation and the 21st Century Jobs Economy

Pete Subkoviak | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Millennial Generation, US Economy, Christina Romer Economy, 21st Century Jobs, Recession American Jobs, Education US Economy, Economy Jobs, Politics News

What should our future economy look like? There may not be simple or convenient answers but our leaders need be honest with the American people about the nature of our problems and create a long-term sustainable solution for jobs in the 21st century.

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