The Millennial Generation

March 14th, 2018
By: John Quiggin – nytimes.com – March 6, 2018 The Pew Research Center announced last week that it will define people born between 1981 and 1996 as members of the millennial generation, embracing a slightly narrower range of years than the ones used by the United States Census Bureau. It would have been better, though, if it had announced the...
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March 7th, 2018
The article highlighted gains in pro-life sentiment among young adults. By: Michael J. New – nationalreview.com – February 1, 2018 Earlier this week, the Washington Post blog “The Fix” featured an article by Eugene Scott highlighting gains in pro-life sentiment among young adults. Scott cites a January 2017 Quinnipiac poll, which found that 18-to-34-year-olds were more likely than other age demographics...
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February 28th, 2018
It can be tempting to hook up everything you love to the internet. But take a moment to appreciate some of the objects that can remain unplugged. By: Brian X. Chen – nytimes.com – February 21, 2018 It still feels magical to light up your living room by saying “Alexa, turn on the lights.” But with all the hype surrounding...
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February 28th, 2018
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the Second Amendment does not provide protection for what it deemed assault weapons, nor does it protect any magazine larger than 10 rounds. By: Matt Agorist — freedomoutpost.com – February 27, 2018 While Americans watched the 2018 Olympics and mainstream media put on scripted town hall meetings to demonize law-abiding...
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February 27th, 2018
By: Richard Fry – pewresearch.org – May 5, 2017 Through both recession and recovery, the share of young adults living in their parents’ home continues to rise. Today’s young adults are also more likely to be at home for an extended stay compared with previous generations of young adults who resided with their parents, according to a Pew Research Center...
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February 23rd, 2018
By: Ian Schwartz – realclearpolitics.com – February 22, 2018 NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch said Thursday morning at CPAC that she wouldn’t have been able to exit last night’s town hall on the Parkland, Fla. school shooting if she didn’t have a security detail. Loesch faced off with students who survived the shooting at a CNN-hosted forum. “I want to make...
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February 21st, 2018
By: Emily Price – fortune.com – February 19, 2018 Millennials in their early 30s earn less than their counterparts in the preceding generation, according to a new study. Millennials on average make 4% less than people in Generation X did when they were the same age, according to the UK-based think tank Resolution Foundation, which analyzed earnings in eight high-income...
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February 21st, 2018
By: Michael D. Shear – nytimes.com – February 20, 2018 The president asked the Justice Department to propose regulations that would ban “bump stocks,” which can convert a semiautomatic gun into an automatic weapon. President Trump — under pressure from angry, grieving students from a Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week — ordered the Justice...
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February 20th, 2018
By: John W. Whitehead – rutherford.org – June 26, 2017 “We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.” ― William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice, dissenting in Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 341 (1966) The government has become an expert in finding...
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February 14th, 2018
By: Lyn Mettler – today.com – February 6, 2018 Valentine’s Day is one of the most popular days to get married in Las Vegas, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Bureau. And of course in Sin City, you’ve got your choice of wedding chapels: from the drive-up variety to the Las Vegas Wedding Wagon, which comes to you....
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