It has become a common refrain in the mainstream media: The economic problems that young people face are the product of generational laziness and a sense of entitlement. People between the ages of 16 and 24 have an unemployment rate of 16.3 percent, more than twice the national average, and an alarming 36 percent of adults age 18-31 are living with their parents.
"Word that six million young people are not working or studying comes as no surprise to anyone with a millennial in the basement," writes Jennifer Graham in an op-ed titled "A Generation of Idle Trophy Kids," for the Boston Globe. Millennials' describes, loosely, the generation born between 1980 and 2000. "It's young people who don't leave the house at all, not because they're scared like agoraphobics, but because their needs are met and they're content."
Blaming the Victims: Media Bias Against Struggling Millennials.
Ed, I found you via googling millennials and Octavio Paz. But I see no references on this post of yours here about Octavio. Do you have one about millennials and OP that I can link to from our TrueTyme.org blogroll?
Regards, Yale
Posted by: Yale Landsberg | Wednesday, June 11, 2014 at 10:35 AM
Yale,
Sorry for the delay. I don't get comments very often. I think what happened is that I have an article, the one you commented on on the struggling millennials and I also somewhere else on my blog I have a poem by Octavio Paz or a reference to one of his books of poetry. So the millennial issue and Octavio Paz may only be connected by the fact that they are on the same blog.
It's an important issue and one that is not being reported on in the mainstream media. Thanks for keeping this issue alive.
Posted by: Ed | Thursday, June 26, 2014 at 12:32 PM