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  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by baron778
    +19 +1

    New report calls for ‘justice for millennials’

    The Millennial generation are earning less than previous generations and are less likely to own a home, according to a new report.

  • Analysis
    7 years ago
    by sjvn
    +18 +1

    Millennials are obsessed with side hustles because they’re all we’ve got

    The side hustle offers something worth much more than money: A hedge against feeling stuck and dull and cheated by life.

  • Analysis
    7 years ago
    by spacepopper
    +5 +1

    The Myth of the Millennial as Cultural Rebel

    If you have read anything about young people in recent years, you could be forgiven for believing that we are living through a cultural revolution, unprecedented in its destructiveness and self-regard. Millennials don’t just reject the music, art, or clothes of their parents; they also reject the older generation’s major sources of economic and spiritual well-being, like home ownership, cars, even sex.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by aj0690
    +33 +1

    It's 'too late' to solve housing crisis for millennials

    It's now too late to solve the housing crisis for young people in the UK, the Conservative party conference was told today. Resolution Foundation's Torsten Bell told a fringe meeting in Birmingham that there was a lost generation who would never own their own homes. "For the millennial generation it is probably too late for us to solve this for them now," he said during a debate on "How Conservatives can deliver for working people"

  • Analysis
    7 years ago
    by everlost
    +3 +1

    Wealth of people in their 30s has 'halved in a decade'

    People in their early 30s are half as wealthy as those now in their 40s were at the same age, a report finds. Today's 30-something generation has missed out on house price increases and better pensions, according to research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Those born in the early 1980s have an average wealth of £27,000 each, against the £53,000 those born in the 1970s had by the same age, said the IFS.

  • Analysis
    7 years ago
    by lostwonder
    +22 +1

    Only 1 in 5 millennials have tried a McDonald’s Big Mac

    Millennials! They’re not having sex! Or are they? They’re hated by other generations but beloved by thinkpiece headlines across the internet. And according to McDonald’s, they’re not eating Big Macs. According to a memo from a top McDonald’s franchisee, only one in five millennials have tried a Big

  • Expression
    7 years ago
    by funhonestdude
    +7 +1

    Why Many Young Russians See a Hero in Putin

    Twenty-five years after the breakup of the Soviet Union, they crave the stability that the nationalist president represents. He doesn’t know where to take me when I meet him at the hotel by the train station, so we just start to walk down the dusty summer streets of Nizhniy Tagil, a sputtering industrial city on the eastern slope of the Ural Mountains. His name is Sasha Makarevich, a 24-year-old cement worker, a blond ponytail falling down his back, a Confederate flag stitched onto his cutoff denim vest. “I thought it just meant independence,” he explains when I ask about it.

  • Analysis
    7 years ago
    by Gozzin
    +26 +1

    Stroke rates decline for the old and rise for the young

    Lifestyle differences such as diet may account for the diverging trends.

  • Expression
    7 years ago
    by cloudcrafter
    +18 +1

    There's a rehab for millennials now...

    A $27,500-a-month facility in Evanston, Ill., is attempting to turn stuck millennials into adults.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by geoleo
    +31 +1

    The Media’s Favorite ‘Millennial’ Is 55 Years Old

    Last week, it happened again. This time it was Forbes, smack dab in the headline. “Millennial Dan Nainan Left Intel To Make His Millions Entertaining Others With Comedy.” Millennial Dan Nainan has been the go-to millennial in a whole lot of news stories in the past year. He was 35 in an AP story that appeared in the Chicago Tribune about undecided voters on Nov. 6, two days before the election. A few weeks later, he was 35 in a Vocativ story about Obama voters who wound up voting for Donald Trump.

  • Analysis
    7 years ago
    by TNY
    +24 +1

    Millennials are falling behind their boomer parents (warning: autoplay video)

    With a median household income of $40,581, millennials earn 20 percent less than boomers did at the same stage of life, despite being better educated, according to a new analysis of Federal Reserve data by the advocacy group Young Invincibles. The analysis being released Friday gives concrete details about a troubling generational divide that helps to explain much of the anxiety that defined the 2016 election. Millennials have half the net worth of boomers. Their home ownership rate is lower, while their student debt is drastically higher.

  • Analysis
    7 years ago
    by zritic
    +24 +1

    Are smartphones killing the art of face-to-face conversation? We ask the experts

    Smartphones are everywhere now and for many of us they serve as a constant companion. They keep us continually connected, filling gaps in our day, entertaining us, and demanding our attention with a string of notifications. Because they offer a convenient alternative to face-to-face conversations, and at times they butt into our chats directly, there’s a growing realization that they may be killing the art of conversation.

  • Analysis
    7 years ago
    by drunkenninja
    +18 +1

    Millennials May Be the First Generation to Lose a Majority of their Jobs to Automation

    The consensus of most people who study labor automation is that the total number of jobs is not going to keep up with population growth as we have seen in the past – at minimum. However, job prospects will likely get a lot worse for those between the ages of 18-34 as time goes on, mainly because of the types of jobs that are easiest to automate.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by sasky
    +22 +1

    Millennials earn 20% less than Boomers did at same stage of life

    Baby Boomers: your millennial children are worse off than you. With a median household income of $40,581, millennials earn 20 percent less than boomers did at the same stage of life, despite being better educated, according to a new analysis of Federal Reserve data by the advocacy group Young Invincibles.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by Nelson
    +13 +1

    Millennials have an average student debt of $41,286.60

    A survey conducted online in February by research agency TNS found that 59 percent of millennials polled have “no idea” when they will be able to pay back their student debt. The survey found millennials, defined as those between the ages of 18 and 35, have an average student debt of $41,286.60. That’s significantly higher than the national average amount of debt for college graduates, which the Department of Education determined is $29,400.

  • Expression
    7 years ago
    by ckshenn
    +11 +1

    We’ve Forgotten How to Dress Like Adults

    On the cover of British Vogue in 1948, an unthinkable figure appeared. An elegant woman turned toward the camera with a set of pearls, a trim suit, and hair that was (gasp!) visibly gray. The fictional character of Mrs. Exeter appeared twice on the cover. Since then, rarely — if ever — would a woman approaching 60 appear on that coveted platform by herself.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by ilyas
    +1 +1

    Ten reasons millennials are backing away from God and Christianity

    College-aged millennials today are far more likely than the general population to be religiously unaffiliated. This is true when they are compared to previous generations as well. In fact, the Pew Research Center documents that millennials are the least outwardly religious American generation, where “one in four are unaffiliated with any religion, far more than the share of older adults when they were ages 18 to 29.”

  • Expression
    6 years ago
    by bradd
    +29 +1

    The avocado toast index: How many breakfasts to buy a house?

    If you’re under 35, you’re a millennial. Recent culinary trends suggest that, while reading this, you might have an overpriced latte in one hand, and a fancy piece of toast smothered with avocadoes in the other. And some suggest that you’d rather waste your money on an Instagrammable breakfast than make sensible investments like buying a house. Well, so says conventional grumpy wisdom, most recently articulated by Australian tycoon Tim Gurner, who made international headlines this month for blasting young home buyers for their spending habits.

  • Expression
    6 years ago
    by drunkenninja
    +12 +1

    What's So Special About This Era of Millennial Blogging

    People are really into exploring their views with the perfect use of this internet world. Hence everyone has a keen interest in developing a rock solid social presence through a blog. What’s so special about this era of millennial blogging? Why do people call it a phase of youngsters? The answer lies within you, your audience, and this virtual world of people connecting with each other from different parts of the world. (These millennials were born between 1981-2001).

  • Current Event
    6 years ago
    by TNY
    +18 +1

    Millennials don’t like motorcycles and that’s killing Harley’s sales

    "We estimate rider growth has declined from a 3-5% annual growth pace pre-financial crisis to close to 0% today," wrote Beckel. "If our back-tested model is predictive of the future, we expect rider growth will dip into negative territory in 2017 and stay in negative territory for at least the next five years."