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The America of the near future will look nothing like the America of the recent past.
America is in the throes of a demographic overhaul. Huge generation gaps have opened up in our political and social values, our economic well-being, our family structure, our racial and ethnic identity, our gender norms, our religious affiliation, and our technology use.
Today's Millennials—well-educated, tech savvy, underemployed twenty-somethings—are
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"A Millennial's groundbreaking investigation into why his generation is economically worse off than their parents, creating a radical and devastating portrait of what it means to be young in America. Millennials have been called lazy, entitled, narcissistic, and immature, but when you push aside the stereotypes, what actually unites this generation? The short answer: They've been had. Millennials are the hardest working and most educated generation...
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Career Press, an imprint of Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"A financial guide for the American millennial. A relatable, easy-to-read, sequential, and comprehensive approach to paying off debt, building an automated savings system, buying life's early stage big purchases, and teaching readers how to live the true millionaire lifestyle"--
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PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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A Wall Street Journal columnist delivers a brilliant narrative of the mugging of the millennial generation, how the Baby Boomers have stolen the millennials' future in order to ensure themselves a comfortable present
“The Theft of a Decade” is a contrarian, revelatory analysis of how one generation pulled the rug out from under another, and the myriad consequences that have set in store for all of us. The millennial generation was the unfortunate...
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Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Sher investigates the challenges the rising generation is facing and how we can empower ourselves with a paradigm-shift that will transform our culture. Explore shifting concepts of adulthood, how to constructively engage in corrupt political process, how to overcome the quarter-life crisis and live out your purpose, ways to heal from personal and intergenerational trauma, how to be ethical and sex positive in relationships, how to save the planet,...
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Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"Examines the cultural factors reshaping the newest generation of voters' way of thinking while offering key insights into the changing nature of American politics. Blending observations from focus groups, personal stories, and polling results, this book provides the answers about where America is heading"--
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University of California Press
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English
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"Generation Priced Out is a call for action on one of the most talked about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing out the working and middle-class from urban America. Telling the stories of tenants, developers, politicians, homeowner groups, and housing activists from over a dozen cities impacted by the national housing crisis, Generation Priced Out criticizes cities for advancing policies that increase economic and...
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Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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It is an exploration of the world-changing activism and potential of the largest youth generation in history. The film shows examples of young leaders working to revolutionize systems that have failed their generation. It paints a powerful and hopeful picture of how today's youth can solve global political and environmental crises
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Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"For the first time in American history, a generation is worse off than their parents. With their overthrow of tradition and authority, the Baby Boomers claim to have been humanity's greatest liberators, but their children would happily trade that so-called liberation for a little less debt, the chance to own a home before fifty, and a shot at extracting some commitment from the bosses and romantic partners who view their relationships as temporary....
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Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Humorous memoir by a young filmmaker about his experience living in the historically black neighborhood, Bedford Stuyvesant, while it undergoes 'the serious, life-threatening process' of gentrification and the economic and cultural forces at play.
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Wiley
Pub. Date
[2016].
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English
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"Adapt your management methods to harness Millennial potential Not Everyone Gets a Trophy: How to Manage the Millennials provides employers with a workable game plan for turning Millennials into the stellar workforce they have the potential to be. The culmination of over two decades of research, this book provides employers with a practical framework for engaging, developing, and retaining the new generation of employees. This new revised and updated...
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New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Unsettled examines the role of young American Jews in the Palestine solidarity movement and argues that their activism and commitment to ending the occupation and Israeli apartheid is a Jewish value, which is a necessary response to the changing conditions of American Jewish life in the twenty-first century"--
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