Tim Donovon
wrote:
There is a
demographic group in crisis today, though they’re rarely discussed.
Occasionally, they’re used as a foil on conservative cable news shows, where
overpaid hosts sneer derisively at their endemic “laziness.” Sometimes, members
of Congress will trot them out as
straw men to drum up support in rural districts.
These are not your struggling
baristas with their undergraduate degrees and mountains of
debt, or your former-newsmen-turned-retail-drones.
They’re not “overeducated and underemployed.” No, this demographic group, the undereducated
and underemployed, are in far more dire straits. This subset of millennials
might not look like the “Gen Y” that’s commonly portrayed in the media — this
site included. They aren’t the duck-faced “Rich Kids of Instagram,”
the Lena Dunhams or the Mark Zuckerbergs that we use as generational stand-ins
(rather than, say, wealthy and successful millennials LeBron James and Kendrick
Lamar).
These millennials – young, undereducated, poor and, all
too often, minorities – exist in a state of permanent
crisis, victims of a new economic disenfranchisement that took root in the
Great Recession and, in the years since, has stubbornly remained. We’re only
now beginning to grasp its full scope — and its potential implications for our
nation’s future.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston
America hates its
kids. I gather it's been fun sport, but they had better watch it. If somehow we
all become united nationalists again, in competition against places like China,
Mother Russia, and we look at our own youthful promise and see how much work
has to be done to build them up in esteem and skills, we might not look so
kindly on those who allowed such sad lengthy wreckage upon them. Your
best-trained were slipping into retail, and you were still savoring the role of
narcissistic master surrounded by fretful kids? You could of had elves but
bullied them into goblins instead, because they cringe and cower to authority
while proud elves don't? Your time is over, steward -- bring on the return of
the king!
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