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  • The Unsexy Truth About Millennials: They’re Poor

    08/15/2016 11:06:57 AM PDT · by Lorianne · 269 replies
    Daily Beast ^ | 05 August 2016 | Samantha Allen
    Millennials are not some vast unsolvable mystery. According to a report from the U.S. Census Bureau (PDF), they earn $2,000 less than their parents did at a comparable age, they are more likely to live in poverty, and they are more likely to live at home. But Baby Boomers and Gen Xers still seem to find it hard to believe that basic economic math can explain much of the younger generation’s behavior. After several news outlets, including The Daily Beast, reported that rates of millennial sexual inactivity in early adulthood are surprisingly high, armchair social theorists came out in force...
  • Peaceniks fall out on human shield mission (HOLD MUH BEER!)

    02/08/2003 4:21:47 PM PST · by MadIvan · 251 replies · 884+ views
    The Sunday Times ^ | February 9, 2003 | Jane Mulkerrins
    A PLAN by a group of peace campaigners to travel by bus to Baghdad to offer themselves to Saddam Hussein as human shields has been threatened with collapse by the personal clashes, logistical chaos and the loss of their leader. One of the group’s three double-deckers has been abandoned in Italy with engine trouble and plans to travel through the Balkans were aborted as “too dangerous”. The head of the delegation, a former American marine, has been deported from Turkey for trying to enter the country with a “world citizen” passport after renouncing his United States citizenship. The second of...