Org aims to help young Americans be powerful buying and voting bloc
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The 50 and older crowd has AARP, so why not a new group to advocate for those under age 30 and build their political muscle?
Our Time intends to increase its members' consumer power, entrepreneurship and influence as a voting bloc. The organization is drawing on a demographic that's coping with big student loan bills, a rough job market and gaps in health care coverage.
"We're working to unite us to both drive down costs in the private sector and also spark national conversation about our needs in the public sector," said 25-year-old Matthew Segal, Our Time's president.
Segal founded Our Time in March with Jarrett Moreno and James Grant, both 24, after seeing a need to burnish the role and influence of the millennial generation, the children of baby boomers who came of age in the new millennium. Boomers are classified as being born from 1946 to 1964; Gen Xers are considered to have birthdates from 1965 to 1980.
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http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/new-group-wants-millennials-975084.html
The 50 and older crowd has AARP, so why not a new group to advocate for those under age 30 and build their political muscle?
Our Time intends to increase its members' consumer power, entrepreneurship and influence as a voting bloc. The organization is drawing on a demographic that's coping with big student loan bills, a rough job market and gaps in health care coverage.
"We're working to unite us to both drive down costs in the private sector and also spark national conversation about our needs in the public sector," said 25-year-old Matthew Segal, Our Time's president.
Segal founded Our Time in March with Jarrett Moreno and James Grant, both 24, after seeing a need to burnish the role and influence of the millennial generation, the children of baby boomers who came of age in the new millennium. Boomers are classified as being born from 1946 to 1964; Gen Xers are considered to have birthdates from 1965 to 1980.
Read More:
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/new-group-wants-millennials-975084.html
