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Career advice for millennials (and really, anyone) from Margaret Heffernan
How do you thrive in today's companies? Margaret Heffernan's advice is to invest time in getting to know people and ask for their help.
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Managing the Millennials
Millennials will be a powerful generation of workers; those with the right skills will be in high demand. In reality, there are strong similarities between millennials and the generations that have preceded them: they want security and variety in their career; they want to be stretched and challenged; they want to work for a company of which they can be proud; and they have every intention of being loyal.
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College-Age Depression Is Increasingly Tied to Helicopter Parenting, Studies Show
Excerpted from How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success by Julie Lythcott-Haims, out now from Henry Holt and Co. Academically overbearing parents are doing great harm. So says Bill Deresiewicz in his groundbreaking 2014 manifesto Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of...
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I took the millennial wine challenge and found a keeper or two
WINE | High-acid, low-cost selections aim to be sociable, not serious — a hallmark of the natural-wine set.
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Verizon Adds Vice to Internet TV Lineup
Vice content, including original programming, will be available on Verizon's upcoming mobile service.
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Why People Are Obsessing Over This Psych Professor’s Tricky Extra Credit Question
One of the last questions this psychology professor posed to his class may have been the most profound of the semester, digging deep into the moral framework of our culture.
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Millennial Awards shine spotlight on New Orleans' young achievers
Even New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu stopped by to speak about how the millennials -- those born in the 1980s to early 2000s -- are playing a part of the city's evolution.
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For Young Voters, Crushing Student Debt Is Front And Center
Megan Brabec, 24, works three part time jobs with no benefits. "It does really frustrate me when I hear candidates talk about, 'Oh, well, you should have majored in something else," she said.
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The Rent is Too Damn High: San Fran Residents Pay $1,000/Mth To Live In Shipping Containers
There’s nothing quite like a grotesquely lopsided “economic recovery” in which a handful of cities boom, while the rest of the nation stagnates. Even worse, millennials living in such chosen cities face one of two options. Either live in mom and dad’s basement, or face a standard of living far more similar to 19th tenement standards than the late 1990’s tech boom. With that out of the way, I want to introduce you to what a $1,000 per month rental in the San Francisco Bay area looks like. Shipping containers...
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The real reason young people are the poorest generation in 25 years
Hint: It's not because of the Internet. By S.E. Smith.
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When Postinternet Art Starts to All Look the Same
Molly Soda is an art darling of a generation that grew up with the internet as a constant companion. Stream Gallery’s current show, SAME, was curated by Soda and features work by her and four other artists exploring the phenomenon of identifying with others’ posts and images on social media sites like Instagram and Tumblr.
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Face it, most millennial dads are hypocrites
Around the time my firstborn was learning to walk, my wife and I tried a tag-team approach to parenting. I'd take most of the early morning shifts and then head to the office. Most evenings, no matter what was happening at work, I'd log back in at home, and my wife would pursue her career as a modern dancer. Our schedules were so distinct that we shared a single unlimited subway pass.
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Apartment Sadness: Bunk Bed Room, Sleeps Six, Real Cheap
This shouldn't be legal, and it shouldn't be happening, because no one should live like this.
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It's Harder for Millennials to Stay Thin Than It Was for Boomers
A new study finds that people today who eat and exercise the same amount as people 30 years ago are still fatter.
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Quick thoughts on the new employment report
1. Labor force participation is down once again, and we cannot dismiss the notion that a new recession may be starting. That said, at current margins I am not sure the traditional distinction between cyclical and structural factors still makes […]
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Millennials are still crushed by recession and could be for decades, experts say
Statistically speaking, 28-year-old graphic designer Amy Norris is somewhat of an anomaly. Twenty-eight percent of her fellow millennials don’t hold full-time jobs. But she has steady employment at Quartermaster Marketing in the Crossroads District. Nearly half of all millennials still live at home with their parents. But Norris and her teacher husband, Bryan, own their home north of the river.
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Why Are More Young Adults Still Living at Home?
The number of 25-year-olds living with their parents has risen significantly since 1999. What factors are at play?
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Poll Finds Americans, Especially Millennials, Moving Away From Religion
A survey by the Pew Research Center shows that the percentage of Americans who say they believe in God, pray daily, and attend church regularly is declining.
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What the Real Estate Industry Should Know about Millennials
This infographic shares various characteristics of Millennials and how their preferences will impact the housing economy and residential real estate market.
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How political correctness rules in America's student 'safe spaces'
A student backlash against hearing words and ideas that oppose their own, citing emotional "trauma", is changing the culture of the American campus writes Ruth Sherlock, US Editor from Harvard University
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