It’s Their Fault

Let’s have a look at the budget of someone (you!) who is just starting out in big NYC with an independent career plan. We’ll say you start out making $26,004 per year as a freelancer of some sort (starting a business, an artist, working an hourly side job, etc.) and live in Brooklyn. [...]

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Distraction… did you ever notice how it is similar to death? And not just because it starts with a “D.” It also contains an “a”! Just like: danger, damnation, and danceaholic!
According to this article,
Attention is the golden key to the mystery of human consciousness; it might one day tell us how we [...]

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A new study…
A recent University of Chicago sociology study compared the results of happiness surveys going back more than 30 years and found that boomers have never been happy. In 2004, 28 percent of respondents born in 1950 considered themselves “very happy,” compared with 40.2 percent of those born in 1935. Back in 1972, [...]

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Judith Rosen says: of course.
…almost half of America’s youngest workers believe the nation’s best days may have come and gone
…Between the bookends of the Roosevelt and Reagan administrations, Americans, their employers, and government entered into an implied agreement that afforded citizens a basic level of economic security if they worked hard and took responsibility for [...]

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I feel bad mentioning this rather unfair takedown of Millennials by a fairly out-of-it college professor, but because of this blog topic, I must…

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A great post from from the Daily Kos:
Perhaps…what I find most infuriating about pieces that call out Millenials for their perceived inaction [is] that there is no corresponding chastisement of the Baby Boomers or the millions of other Americans who also have the ability to engage in “real world” activism.
The post goes on to explain [...]

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Last week, the New York Times put out a popularly e-mailed piece about students choosing big-money corporate jobs instead of service or artistic jobs. Too many students, they say, are lured by the big paycheck.
On other campuses as well, officials are questioning with new vigor whether too many top students who might otherwise [...]

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Perhaps it is only natural that the wealthiest generation ever is also the worst American generation at saving. According to a just-released McKinsey survey (see graph),
the Boomers’ missing savings…accounts for most of the collapse in the U.S. household saving rate from its peak of over 10 percent in the mid-1980s to around 2 percent [...]

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There has been much discussion about the rising cost of healthcare in the United States, and there will continue to be as the election heats up. While many of the costs of our poor healthcare system have been discussed by candidates and special interest groups - especially the fact that young graduates [...]

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