Joel Kotkin, Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange, California, and Executive Director of the Houston-based Center for Opportunity Urbanism, has written a piece for the Daily Beast, The Screwed Generation Turns Socialist. He devotes three paragraphs in the article to Generation X; however, the “screwed” generation he believes is turning socialist […]
Three Ways to Speak Millennial
Kim Bassett serves as President and CEO of Stewart Norwood Hospital in Norwood, Massachusetts. When it comes to understanding Millennials (born roughly between the early 1980s and 2000) in the workplace, she is an industry expert. The following article was written by Bassett. Please connect with her on LinkedIn. How To Speak Millennial Millennials are […]
Parents: Discover the Top Risky, Blacklisted Apps for Teens
TeenSafe, the world’s leading parental monitoring technology service, has blacklisted apps for teens — five in all. Known as hidden or vault apps they fly under the radar. For example, an app used for sexting can be disguised as a calculator. An app that encourages the hookup culture can be disguised as an every day mobile […]
Millennial Viral Video: Dear Elders, I’m Sorry.
A young Texas journalist named Alexis Bloomer posted the following video to Facebook. At last count, it had received 40 million Facebook views.The two-minute commentary is a pretty severe indictment on Millennials (Generation Y). Here is a counterpoint to her argument via Houstonian Online. Dear Elders, I’m Sorry Excerpt We’re just existing, not really contributing […]
Remarkable Dip in Millennials and Church
When confusion’s my companion And despair holds me for ransom I will feel no fear I know that You are near –For King and Country A new study by Pew Charitable Trust reveals that only 55 percent of Millennials believe church has a positive impact on the United States of America. Just five years ago, […]
Generation X, Abortion and the Pro-Life Generation
According to an online archive citing statistics from the Centers for Disease Control, 12,517,320 abortions occurred in the United States during the birth years of Generation X (1961-1981). There was a sharp rise in 1973, following Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized the procedure to end unwanted or life-threatening pregnancies. Since 2007, […]