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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Generation Y

Generation Y stories: 8 news summaries

Big Three See Bumpy Road With 20-Somethings

Demographic key to rebuilding for US automakers

May 29, 09 2:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Detroit automakers face a hard road when it comes to Generation Y—consumers aged 22-32 whose business is crucial to securing the firms' futures, BusinessWeek reports. Their boomer parents broke from tradition by shifting to Japanese cars, and Gen Y is following in those footsteps. Detroit “simply must do... More »

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Chrysler • baby boomer • Toyota • General Motors • Detroit • automaker • Ford • Big Three • Generation Y • US automakers • Japanese auto industry

(Newser) - Meghan McCain continues her Generation Y rebellion within the GOP with a blog on a hottie congressman she admits discovering from beefcake shots on TMZ. In her Daily Beast column, McCain sees 27-year-old Aaron Schock of Illinois as the party's best hope of reinventing its stodgy image. "Schock should... More »

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GOP • Generation Y • Aaron Schock • Meghan McCain • young Republicans

Obama Signals End of Boomers' DC Reign

But at 47 he's too old for Gen X; seen as more of a bridge

Jan 12, 09 9:14 AM CST
(Newser) - Baby boomers will lose Washington next week to a new, more pragmatic generation. But which one that is seems up for debate, reports the AP. At 47, Barack Obama is a tad too young for boomers—whose partisan politics are informed by civil-rights marches and sexual liberation—but too old... More »

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Barack Obama • baby boomer • age • Generation X • Generation Y • George W. Bush • President Obama • Generation Jones • Cusp Generation

 Why Gen Xers
 Hate Corporate Jobs 

10 reasons you won't find Xers in an executive suite

May 21, 08 9:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Generation Xers don't seem to be clambering to the top of the corporate ladder in the numbers they should be—and many are turned off by corporate life altogether. BusinessWeek has 10 reasons why this might be so:
  1. Xers started their careers just as the economy went into its
... More »

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baby boomer • corporate culture • generation gap • Generation X • Generation Y • management

 Philly Best for Young Grads 

City of Brotherly Love has many of New York's charms—but at a big discount

May 1, 08 8:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cheesesteaks aren’t the only things luring young people to the City of Brotherly Love, MSNBC reports. A survey by Apartments.com and Careerbuilder that factors in the cost of apartments, job opportunities, and the number of 20-somethings, puts Philadelphia—$962 for a one-bedroom compared with $1,520 in NYC—... More »

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Chicago • Atlanta • Boston • New York • Detroit • Dallas • Los Angeles • Houston • housing • Phoenix • Philadelphia • Generation Y • college graduates

new release

Author Just Talking 'Bout
X Generation

'Ignored' demographic keeps 'everything from sucking,' book argues

Apr 18, 08 1:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Between the stuck-in-the-'60s boomers and their blog-happy offspring is a mighty yet forgotten generation, Jeff Gordinier writes in his new book, X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft But Can Still Keep Everything From Sucking. From less Dylan to more Cobain, the author wants the "dark-horse... More »

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baby boomer • generation gap • Generation X • Generation Y • millennials

China Faces Baby Boomlet

Echoes of relaxed one-child rule, healthy economy will manifest soon

Dec 14, 07 4:31 PM CST
(Newser) - China is bracing for a bumper crop of babies as kids born after the relaxation of the strict one-child policy in 1984 start their own families, the London Times reports. Strict penalties still apply to couples with more than one child, but tradition-bound and wealthy Chinese can afford to pay... More »

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China • Generation Y • one child policy • overpopulation • little emperors

Passé the Turkey

Increasing number
of Gen-Yers aren't spending Thanksgiving with family

Nov 21, 07 3:07 PM CST
(Newser) - Don't expect the kids home for Thanksgiving. Young adults are increasingly spending the holiday with their buddies instead of their families, the Christian Science Monitor reports, due in large part to the longer distances between where Gen-Yers live and where they were raised. A 2006 poll found 8% of Americans... More »

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family • Thanksgiving • Generation Y

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