The amount of student loan debt and the rate of delinquency have been climbing for years now. If it seems like every new statistic is worse than the last, that’s because it is. Credit bureau TransUnion says more than half of student loan accounts are in deferral status, and FICO Labs found that a rising number of those debtors aren’t …
Generation Y
Retirement Income: 5 Steps to Fill the Gaps
It’s never too late to start planning your retirement security. Here’s a one-size-fits-all strategy that will help secure an adequate stream of income in your later years.
Being 30 and Living With Your Parents Isn’t Lame — It’s Awesome
Just how much of a bummer is it to be well past the age of adulthood and still living under your parent’s roof? As this living arrangement grows increasingly common, the perception is that it’s not so bad after all. In fact, …
Move Out of Your Parents’ House and Save the Economy
Whatever happened to wanderlust? Over the years, Americans in their 20s have grown less and less likely to move away from their home states. During the recession era, young adults have becoming increasingly unlikely to leave even …
Fewer Teenagers Have Driver’s Licenses … Because of Gas Prices and the Internet?
The number of teen drivers has dramatically decreased over the past couple of decades. In 1983, 69% of all 17-year-olds had driver’s licenses. By 2008, only half of 17-year-olds had licenses. What’s behind the big drop?
Viewers Turn Off the TV … And TV Ad Prices Go Up?
For the first time in two decades, the number of U.S. households with at least one TV has declined. So why would the rates charged to TV advertisers be rising?
“The most miserly people in the United States right now would look incredibly self-indulgent by the standards of the U.S. 100 years ago.”
Q&A: ‘Generation Earn’ Author Kimberly Palmer
To today’s young professionals, debilitating credit card and student loan debt and unemployment rates of 10% are common parts of their economic landscape, while ideas like job security and real estate investments that always rise in value seem like concepts of the distant past. How do people in their 20s and 30s differ from previous …
FINALLY! Three Things You Thought Would Never Happen, and Then the Recession Made Them Happen
The global economic downturn has done what government policymakers, bosses and employers, the collective health care complex, and the consumer brain could not accomplish.
E-mail vs. text: a question for young workers
I recently e-mailed our babysitter about some upcoming dates. I waited and waited for her response, but it never came—by e-mail, anyway. When I finally thought to check, there was a prompt answer waiting on my cell phone. “ive gt dance rhsl so i cant,” she’d texted. Oh. Thx anywy.
It’ll come as no particular shock to you that my …
Ladies, lead not your male colleagues astray
And what I mean by this is: Don’t look at him, don’t talk to him, and for the love of Pete cut out the smiling.
This from LiveScience, via my (male) friend Gerry: “Clueless Guys Can’t Read Women.”
More often than not, guys interpret even friendly cues, such as a subtle smile from a gal, as a sexual come-on, and a new study discovers
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The Sopranos Were (Blackhawk) Helicopter Parents
I realized on the bus ride home yesterday (yes, I was still mulling over the final Sopranos episode, because I apparently have no intellectual life) that Tony and Carmella are the most fearsome breed of helicopter parents: Blackhawks.
That, I learned from (of all places) The New York Post, is what we call Baby Boomer parents who not …
