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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.
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Wednesday Rutgers University's John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development released a survey of college students (PDF) and some of the only numbers I have seen on youth "underemployment."
So many statistics today show data on the unemployment levels in the US which are based on those that are filing for unemployment. If you're still working your college job part time, or you don't qualify for unemployment, or your unemployment has run out - these numbers aren't counting you. This leads many to assume that the unemployment rate in the US is higher. Since the youth unemployment rate is almost double the national average it would only stand to reason that these more accurate numbers would also show the true unemployment level for youth to also be double.
According to Rutgers
"In order to better understand the American public’s attitudes about work, employers, and the government, and to suggest ways to improve workplace practices and policy, the Heldrich Center began conducting a series of nationwide surveys titled Work Trends. Since 1998, more than 20 surveys have polled employed and unemployed Americans on critical workforce issues. While prior Work Trends surveys had focused on a cross‐section of workers, the prolonged “Great Recession” prompted a closer examination of the experiences and opinions of unemployed workers. A new paper highlights the key findings from the Heldrich Center’s effort to capture the experiences of American workers during the worst labor market in a generation."
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/11/attacking-cnn-polls-young-adults-30_n_860483.html
Mark Blumenthal's piece examining the world of polling and the ways media outlets don't use landlines.
"This controversy raises two important questions: First, why are CNN's pollsters having so much trouble reaching younger Americans? Second, does it matter that CNN's landline sample misses so many younger Americans that it has to weight the youngest age group up by a factor of at least three?
The answer to the first question is easy: CNN's unweighted poll was light on younger Americans because their sample covered only households with a landline telephone. As documented by the National Center for Health Statistics, the percentage of American households with a cellphone but no landline telephone service has been steadily rising over the last ten years, especially among younger Americans. As of last year, 24.9 percent of all adults have wireless service only, but among those aged 25 to 29 years that number is now more than half -- 51.3 percent."
Read more of this extensive expose on media polling and how it will be impacted this election.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/09/obama-youth-vote-millennials_n_859685.html
NEW YORK -- At 17, Rachel Marshall spent most of the 2004 presidential election sulking because she wasn't yet old enough to vote.
Four years later, Marshall more than made up for lost time by co-founding the local chapter of Ball State University’s Students for Barack Obama.
Early on in Obama’s bid for the White House, Marshall, now 24, was drawn not only to Obama’s charisma and idealism, but to his authentic ability to connect with young voters.
“You could tell he genuinely cared about our generation and was really focused on the future of this country and what kind of legacy he would make sure to leave for us,” says Marshall, who grew up in West Chester, Ohio, where House Speaker John Boehner resides. She is the lone Democrat in a family of Republicans.
After graduating from college during the peak of the recession, Marshall moved back home, unable to find a job. Two years later, she still lives in her mother’s basement
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NEW YORK -- Noelle Aldrich never planned on moving back in with her parents after graduating from college.
Aldrich will graduate from Oklahoma Baptist University next Friday. Once the ceremony is over and her mother and sister board a plane home to Claremont, N.H., she and her father will make the return trip by car, with all of her belongings nestled in the backseat.
Aldrich, 21, considers herself to be a consummate planner. Possibly more unnerving than anything else, she says, is the lack of knowing what comes next.
“It’s going to take me years to ever make what my dad makes now,” said Aldrich, who wants to work as an elementary school teacher, but has yet to find a job. “Eventually I hope I’ll get there.”
Aldrich is hardly the only 20-something questioning whether or not she’ll be able to build a better life than her parents. For nearly three decades, pollsters have been asking, Will today’s youth have a better life than their parents’ generation?
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Less than half are against same-sex marriage, poll finds
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/10/06/poll.gay.marriage/index.html?hpt=T1
Fewer than half of Americans oppose gay marriage, poll finds
By the CNN Wire Staff
October 6, 2010 9:56 p.m. EDT
For the first time since Pew started asking about it, fewer than half of those polled said they oppose gay marriage.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
* For the first time in Pew poll's history, fewer than half oppose legal gay marriage
* More Americans continue to oppose gay marriage than support it
* Poll finds significant shifts in public opinion on the issue since last year
(CNN) -- Fewer than half of Americans oppose legalized same-sex marriage, according to a new poll on the issue released Wednesday, with significant shifts in public opinion on the issue just since last year.
More Americans continue to oppose gay marriage than support it, according to the poll, which was released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center. But for the first time since Pew starting asking about same sex marriage 15 years ago, fewer than half of those polled said they oppose legalizing the institution.
The poll revealed other firsts. For the first time since Pew began asking about the issue, more white mainline Protestants and white Catholics favor gay marriage than oppose it.
"The shift in opinion on same-sex marriage has been broad-based, occurring across many demographic, political and religious groups," Pew's polling analysis said.
The analysis noted that political independents, who were opposed to gay marriage by a wide margin just last year, are now divided on the issue.
The poll -- which combines two surveys conducted from July to September of this year -- found that 42 percent of Americans favor same-sex marriage, while 48 percent oppose it.
In polls conducted in 2009, 37 percent favored gay marriage while 54 percent were opposed, Pew said.
"The public continues to be far more supportive of gays and lesbians serving openly in the military than of allowing legal same-sex marriages," the Pew's polling analysis notes.
Sixty percent of Americans favor allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military, while 30 percent oppose it. Support for gays serving openly in the military has remained fairly stable over the last five years, Pew said.
On gay marriage, the new poll found significant differences of opinions along age, racial and partisan lines.
Americans in the so-called Millennial Generation -- those born after the 1980s -- favor gay marriage by 53 percent to 39 percent, the poll found. Among those born between 1928 and 1945, just 29 percent favor allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally, while 59 percent are opposed.
Among Democrats, 53 percent support legalized gay marriage, while just 24 percent of Republicans do.
And while whites are evenly divided over gay marriage, the poll found, blacks oppose legalizing the institution by a wide margin.Less than half are against same-sex marriage, poll finds... more
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YPNation contributor Vinti Singh takes a look at the numbers from the latest Millennial poll from Harvard University's Institute of Politics:
"Less than half of Millennials, Americans age 18 to 29, believe when they are their parents’ age, they will be better off, according to the “Survey of Young Americans’ Attitudes Toward Politics and Public Service" (pdf) from Harvard University's Institute of Politics.
Given the current economy, 60 percent said they were concerned about meeting their bills and obligations; 58 percent were concerned about being able to afford a place to live; 56 percent were concerned they wouldn't have enough money for health care and 46 percent were worried that they would not be able to live in the town or city of their choice. Among college students, 45 percent said they were concerned about being able to continue to pay for school. That number jumped to 64 percent for students enrolled in community college."
Read more here: http://www.ypnation.net/millennials-generation-future-looking-not-so-brightYPNation contributor Vinti Singh takes a look at the numbers from the latest... more
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CIRCLE has numbers about yesterday's vote in the special election for the US Senate seat in Massachusetts.
According to the briefing:
"Tisch College, Medford/Somerville, Mass - In the special election for Massachusetts Senator, young voters (age 18-29) preferred Democrat Martha Coakley over Republican Scott Brown by 58%-40% (with 2% for other candidates), according to a survey of 1,000 voters conducted on January 19, by Rasmussen Reports.
About 15% of Massachusetts citizens between the ages of 18-29 turned out to vote.* For citizens age 30 and older, turnout was about 57%.
For comparison: 25% of young citizens (age 18-29) voted in the 2008 Massachusetts presidential primaries, and 47.8% of young Massachusetts citizens voted in the 2008 presidential elections, according to CIRCLE’s analysis. Seventy-eight percent of under-30 voters in Massachusetts chose Barack Obama in the 2008 general election; 20% chose John McCain."
Part of me is angry that we lost this seat to someone who doesn't support the youth agenda, but the major part of me is that young people obviously supported Coakley but there was - according to one political insider - "zero" outreach from the Coakley campaign to young voters.
Read more at: http://futuremajority.com/node/9746CIRCLE has numbers about yesterday's vote in the special election for the US... more
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What do you get when you mix four White House cabinet members, a slew of campaign-workers-turned-staffers, and 120 or so young climate activists? Something to tell your grandkids about.
I had the privilege of attending the White House’s Clean Energy Economy Forum yesterday. The name doesn’t quite reveal the nature of the event. Most of the people in the invite-only audience were under 30 and a few hadn’t reached drinking age. It was a peace offering of sorts from President Obama’s top advisers to young leaders in the environmental movement, many of whom were rapidly turning on the administration for seemingly not making energy policy a priority.
More specifically, the meeting was spurred by a “demand” (I hate that word, but it seemed to work here) from the Energy Action Coalition, an amalgam of 50 youth-oriented environmental groups. The EAC launched It’s Game Time, Obama to insist that the President meet with young people to discuss climate change and attend the U.N. Climate Change Summit this month in Copenhagen. There has been little movement on climate change since the House passed a controversial energy bill in June, and Obama was fairly silent on the issue until the last two weeks. That also spurred EAC executive director Jessy Tolkan took to the Huffington Post to assail Obama the president and Obama the candidate for wearing two different faces on energy policy.What do you get when you mix four White House cabinet members, a slew of... more
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This morning I got an email from myImpact.org announcing that they'd received support from the Peterson Foundation and Mobilize.org for a social media project they intend to do. This was announced at the Mobilize.org event "Exploring the Millennial Generation’s Return on Investment" a conference announced earlier this year when Mobilize announced their $1million grant from the Peterson Foundation.
William Greider wrote in The Nation earlier this year about the Looting of Social Security, describing very specifically the plan among Wall Street and Banking elites who are pushing the idea of fiscal responsibility as part of policy. Fiscal responsibility is a well tested phrase that everyone can get behind - because everyone agrees that our country should be responsible with its money. . . but Greider says that this is a backdoor swindle on anyone who has paid into Social Security
"These players are promoting a tricky way to whack Social Security benefits, but to do it behind closed doors so the public cannot see what's happening or figure out which politicians to blame. The essential transaction would amount to misappropriating the trillions in Social Security taxes that workers have paid to finance their retirement benefits. This swindle is portrayed as "fiscal reform." In fact, it's the political equivalent of bait-and-switch fraud."
His piece is extensive, and outlines the ways in which the rich want to use funding for Social Security to cut taxes to corporations and upper-income wage earners and a huge tax increase imposed on working people that he says is similar to the 1983 tax
"the payroll tax rate supporting Social Security--the weekly FICA deduction--was raised substantially, supposedly to create a nest egg for when the baby boom generation reached retirement age."
There is a kindred spirit in young people with this message, because since the 1980's the Millennial Generation has heard a consistent message about Social Security being too small to support the Baby Boomer Generation. Most young people don't think it will be there for them (Disclaimer: It will be), so this is a great group of people to begin organizing around "entitlement reform" to unmake Social Security and bait the young against the old to screw us all.This morning I got an email from myImpact.org announcing that they'd received... more
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There is a release of a new study backed by the WTO developed by an international group of experts in adolescent health that names the top ways in which young people across the world are dying. While the reasons, which I'll get to in a moment, are bad enough the most staggering is the study shows that more than 2.5 million young people aged 10–24 years die worldwide each year primarily from preventable reasonsThere is a release of a new study backed by the WTO developed by an international... more
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Mariana van Zeller looks at the impact of the youth involvement in the 2008 presidential election.Mariana van Zeller looks at the impact of the youth involvement in the 2008... more
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