I’ve been getting a little bit of pushback from the piece posted yesterday about entitlement spending, right wing orgs funding youth groups, and the weekend conference “Exploring the Millennial Generation’s Return on Investment” hosted in part by Mobilize.org. Mobilize reminded me that AARP was also part of the funding for the conference – which [...]
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I’ve been in DC this week for conferences and meetings, but the conference I’m at today is called A Better Deal, for young people who are trying to navigate the economy in such troubling times. I’ve told you these stats before: youth have twice the unemployment than the rest of the country despite having [...]
There is a great author I’ve admired for the last several years since I read his book Millennial Makeover. Since being involved in the youth movement I’ve heard so many speakers and so-called experts, but Morley Winograd is the real deal.
His book was also named as a favorite on the NYTimes list and for the [...]
One of my fav Millennial writers Morley Winograd and Michael Hais had a great Millennial Fact Sheet article come out this week that dispels some annoyingly frequent assumptions about young people – particularly ones about politics.
Here are a few of my personal favorites
2. Millennials are narcissistic, self-indulgent kids who think they are entitled to [...]
Another bleak report for young people trying to make a living. Oddly enough the same stats from the AFLCIO study I posted this morning are similar to teens. And its probably important to mention that these are teens that WANT a job – not just teens being forced by their parents to wait tables over the summer.
Like their older counterparts, teens are the last to be hired and the first to be shoved out of the door in the recession.
Eric Greenberg author of the opensource book Generation We and unbelievable supporter of the youth movement, spent an afternoon with the folks at Google as part of their authors series talking about his work on the book and the future of our generation. Incidentally, Greenberg was announced by Adam Borelli founder of the New Leader’s [...]
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