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Millennials Have More Debt and Many will be Renters for Life
In the recently released report, Millennials are $1 trillion in debt — more than any other generation in history. This isn’t exactly their fault. Over 44 million Americans have student loans, with the average debt hovering around $33,000 (2020). Yet even worse, they tend to suffer even more from credit card debt.
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Can Hollywood figure out Gen Z? This summer's movies are a major test
'Bodies Bodies Bodies,' 'Sharp Stick' and 'Not Okay' attempt to bring Gen Z sensibilities — and, Hollywood hopes, viewers — to the movies. Here's how.
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Fact: "Unconventional" Sex Is Actually Very Common
Here’s a headline that's impossible to resist: “Huge New Survey Documents How Americans Have Sex.” Who wouldn’t read that? There’s a bit of the voyeur in all of us. We’re fascinated by everyone else’s sexuality. We want to know what’s “normal,” “average,” “typical,” and “conventional,” so we can compare ourselves to the supposed standard. Only there is no norm.
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Baby boomers are snatching houses out of the hands of millennials
Baby boomers and millennials are in a housing war. A Zillow report lays out how boomers are winning, and it's really not even close.
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It’s Time to Stop Talking About “Generations”
From boomers to zoomers, the concept gets social history all wrong.
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Young people seen as selfish rather than selfless during Covid
And contrary to the public's perception, older people are most likely to report no negative effects from the pandemic
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Baby boomers are more sensitive than millennials, according to the largest-ever study on narcissism
A new study, the largest-ever conducted narcissism, looked specifically at hypersensitivity, a trait that helps determine how narcissistic people are. Its findings suggests that, contrary to popular belief, millennials aren’t more sensitive than the baby boomer generation. In fact, it’s the other way around.
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Millennials Control Just 4.6 Percent of US Wealth
The millennial generation, people born between 1981 and 1996, make up the largest share of the U.S. workforce, but control just 4.6 percent of the country's total wealth.
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Millennials accuse Baby Boomers of ruining the economy
Lazy, financially irresponsible, never happy ... stereotypes of Millennials are tough. But for young people, the real generation to blame is the Baby Boomers, due to their negative impact on today's economy.
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60% of millennials earning over $100,000 say they're living paycheck to paycheck
High-earning millennials are feeling broke. Sixty percent of millennials raking in over $100,000 a year say they're living paycheck to paycheck, according to a new survey by PYMNTS and lending company LendingClub which analyzed economic data and census-balanced surveys of over 28,000 Americans.
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Working Less Is a Matter of Life and Death
Search online “work too much” and you’ll get screenfuls of information about the harmful medical, mental and social consequences of spending too much time on the job, going all the way back to that old saw first recorded in the 17th century, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”
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Why Millennials Can’t Grow Up
A few weeks ago, I met my first Millennial grandparent. I was interviewing a woman in her late 30s about President Joe Biden’s new child-tax-credit proposal, and she mentioned that it would benefit not just her two young kids but her older son’s kid too.
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Why Americans are abandoning the church
According to an ancient Chinese proverb, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Very often, we focus not on those initial small steps but on giant leaps, often undertaken by government. Think, for example, of Franklin D. Roosevelt signing Social Security into law in 1935, a giant step that changed the lives of the elderly. Or Lyndon B. Johnson’s signature on the Medicare law 30 years later that did the same.
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Alan Cross: Sorry Gen X, but the music of your youth is now the new classic rock
Back when The Simpsons still offered biting social commentary, season seven saw Homer try to impress Bart and Lisa by scoring tickets to the Lollapalooza-like Hullabalooza, which featured Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, and a very baked Cypress Hill.
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Waiting for baby boomers to die is not effective housing policy
A few years ago, my neighbour died. for many of the preceding decade, we’d done the standard Toronto thing: acknowledged one another politely, usually through an exchange of nods, and courteously asked for or provided help when needed. His death wasn’t unexpected — he was elderly, and his health had obviously been failing for a few time — but it had been sad.
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The Conservative Case Against the Boomers
Everyone’s fed up with the baby boomers. Younger progressives charge them with a form of generational hoarding—of titles and power but mostly of money. The richest generation in the history of the world, the story goes, has squandered its wealth on vanity purchases and projects while leaving younger Americans with a debased environment and crazy levels of debt.
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The Most Common Religious Identity For Young Americans Is ‘None,’ Study Suggests
Over one-third of young adults said they are atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular," according to a report from the American Enterprise Institute.
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The Rich Kids Who Want to Tear Down Capitalism
Socialist-minded millennial heirs are trying to live their values by getting rid of their money.
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Why some Americans left religion behind
With the percentage of U.S. adults who do not identify with a religious group growing, we asked these people to explain, in their own words, why they left.
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Millennials have 4 times less wealth than Baby Boomers did by age 34, control just 4.2% of all U.S. wealth
Millennials are the largest group in the U.S. workforce but have 10 times less money than Baby Boomers control today.
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