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March 16, 2012
The Boomerang Baby Boom: "Three in 10 young adults live with parents, highest level since 1950s"
After graduating from Brown University in 2009 witha bachelor’s degree in comparative literature and completing a Fulbright scholarship in Brazil, Cassie Owens was left with a few dollars on her stipend and no job in sight. So, Ms. Owens returned home to her mother in Philadelphia. “I moved back home pretty much for lack of money and prospects,” she says. -- - CSMonitor.com[Where, oh where, are the manufacturers who thirst to have their literature compared? ]
Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 16, 2012 8:37 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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I know where they are hiring Java programmers down in Austin. I met one of our recent hires when I was down there last year. He was a nice young man, a Lebanese Muslim. The Nguyens (some of the most patriotic Americans you'll meet) could have their own section in the building. We have Chinese. We have every variety of Indian including, as one project manager put it, his favorite, the steak-and-bourbon Indians. We have Mexicans and folks from the Caribbean. What we don't have many of are young Americans of European or African descent -- male or female. Our younger, white females are mostly project people and not engineers.
Posted by: mushroom at March 16, 2012 12:09 PM
This young lady is really complaining that she got a Mrs degree and diploma, but not the certificate and license. Now she doesn't know what to do with herself, but she darn sure isn't going to do anything so menial as a labor job, you know, where you need either muscles or technical skills, and where the work is repetitive.
Posted by: John A. Fleming at March 16, 2012 12:44 PM
Sure hope the little snowflakes don't melt after their folks get too old to look after them. Maybe we need a home care entitlement for dis-parented snowflakes?
Posted by: BillH at March 16, 2012 12:54 PM
In the case of a family with multiple children, the one who ends up going back home will inherit everything from Mom and Dad.
No. Really. With few exceptions these days, modern doting parents tend to reward the least productive and most problematic of their offspring, under the assumption that the ones who don't need to come back because they have serious jobs and can afford to support themselves don't need help. I have seen this phenomenon happen repeatedly.
Posted by: Don Rodrigo at March 19, 2012 1:10 PM