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Employment Rate For Young Adults Lowest In 60 Years

2012-02-09T00:01:00Z

Are you young and looking for work? You're in good company.

Just 54 percent of Americans ages 18 to 24 currently have jobs, according to a study re...

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Hank Bordowitz: Post 50 Music: The Lost Audience

2011-12-15T07:53:00Z

We are the generation that invaded record stores on Wednesday, when the new releases came out, wanting to be the first of our friends to have the new cool album. We slept on sidewalks outside of Korvettes for the first tickets to the Dr. Pepper Festival. We took and continue to take our musical entertainment seriously. It matters to us.

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Occupy Wall Street: A Generation Of 20-Somethings Airs Its Grievances, Its Frustrations

2011-12-07T08:30:00Z

NEW YORK -- Since graduating a year and a half ago from the Rhode Island School of Design, Nate Barchus hasn't shaken a nagging feeling: that he's ai...

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Pamela Yellen: Really, Have We No Faith In Our Young People?

2011-09-27T17:33:11Z

If you know young people who are currently without direction (or hope), then provide them a map. Let them know that America is a country that needs their unique energy, creativity, commitment and quest for purpose.

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Nicole Lapin: The Real Debt Threat: Student Loans

2011-09-27T15:14:48Z

Student debt now totals up to $550 billion -- a significant part of the nation's debt. According to James Altucher, college costs have risen 1000% in the past 30 years -- outpacing healthcare, which has risen 700%, and inflation, which has risen "only" 300%.

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Young Adults Are Recession's Lost Generation, Census Finds

2011-09-22T07:58:18Z

WASHINGTON — Young adults are the recession's lost generation.

In record numbers, they're struggling to find work, shunning long-distance moves...

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Nicole Lapin: Lost Girls

2011-09-20T11:40:47Z

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, one in five women are currently working part-time jobs because they can't find full-time work. Prior to the recession, that number was less than one in ten.

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Sex For Tuition: Gay Male College Students Using ‘Sugar Daddies’ To Pay Off Loan Debt

2011-08-30T08:00:21Z

NEW YORK -- Three years ago, during his junior year at New York University, Kirk met with a financial aid officer to plead a familiar case: his inabil...

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College Students Using 'Sugar Daddies' To Pay Off Loan Debt

2011-07-29T13:08:06Z

NEW YORK -- On a Sunday morning in late May, Taylor left her Harlem apartment and boarded a train for Greenwich, Conn. She planned on spending the day...

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WATCH: With Tuition Dollars At Stake, Student Veterans Eagerly Anticipate Passage Of Legislation

2011-06-28T16:40:00Z

NEW YORK -- Earlier this year, we introduced you to Cameron Baker, a 27-year-old veteran of the U.S. Air Force. He's currently attending Columbia Univ...

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G.I. Bill Cuts: Veterans Enrolled In College Face Uncertain Futures

2011-06-24T08:00:00Z

MADISON, Wis. -- Nearly two years ago, Stephen Lee uprooted his wife and two children from their home in Clarksville, Tenn., to study political scienc...

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WATCH: College Grads Move Home, Face Uncertain Futures

2011-05-24T09:00:00Z

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Her Campus: How to Avoid Becoming Part of "The Lost Generation"

2010-11-03T12:05:46Z

It's true. Our generation is having trouble finding jobs. Nevertheless, that doesn't mean we should throw in the towel and go home to mommy. Take these steps in order to prevent our generation from falling behind.

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The Lost Generation: 8 Reasons Why America's Youth Are Falling Behind

2010-08-10T08:05:29Z

In the shadow of our faltering economy, America's students must cope with a host of issues: college affordability, mounting debt, unemployment. Attend...

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Eric Ehrmann: The Big Dollar Bustout ... Is Too Big To Fail Still an Option?

2009-10-19T14:10:24Z

With efforts to rebrand America's national identity in the electronic media falling flat like a bad online date, taking away the dollar's too big to fail status might be the better wake up call.

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Fallon & The Roots Slow Jam The Unemployment Crisis (VIDEO)

2009-10-14T08:29:52Z

The recession has created what "Business Week" dubbed a "lost generation" -- recent grads from high school, college, and grad school who cannot find j...

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Charles Glass: The Last of the Lost Generation in Paris Under the Nazis

2010-01-07T10:28:26Z

The idea for Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation came to me one day while wandering through Paris and wondering what I'd have done when the Nazis took the city.

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