Increasing life expectancy and falling birthrates means many of us may have to keep working until beyond 71 years of age.
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The law changed older adults’ caregiving behavior because their children became more able to take paid time off work to care for their own newborns.
Middle age means staying a step ahead on both the medical and financial fronts.
About a third of American adults in Generation Z lack the money or resources needed for reliable access to nutritious food.
The political alliance between American evangelicals and Israel’s right wing may have peaked during the Trump administration.
For those born around 1950, 84% earned more at age 30-34 than their own own parents did at the same age. It has been about 68% for those born since the early 1960s.
Published in 1991, the tale of over-educated, under-employed young people who lament the broken world they’ve inherited speaks to the concerns of today’s youth.
The return of actors like Karate Kid Ralph Macchio and Bill & Ted’s Alex Winter sees them older and wiser. Fewer role revivals remind us of character growth related to womanhood.
As the adult children of baby boomers start inheriting their parents’ wealth, it’s time we looked seriously at taxing this unearned income.
We don’t know how long-lasting the effects of the virus will be, but the outbreak is already having a deep psychological impact on people and disrupting life on a massive scale.
An employment law expert explains why you shouldn’t use an age-related insult at work to demean an older colleague – an issue even the Supreme Court is now talking about.
In the late 1970s, 52 percent of 12th-graders hung out with their friends almost every day. By 2017, only 28 percent were doing so.
Millennials are more financially conservative than their high debt balances might suggest.
Baby boomers didn’t all benefit from free education, and not all millennials are struggling to buy a home.
“Millennial snowflakes” are derided as weak and sensitive but this nastiness is patently false and actively harms progress on tackling mental health.
Following the explosion of screen-based personal devices, the risk of users slipping into hyper reality has multiplied enormously since the television age.
The generational ‘war’ is a con, designed to hide a darker truth.
Managers have barely got to grips with the challenges posed by Millennials. What are they going to do with Generation Z?
The “Xennials” are supposedly a group born between the late 1970s and early 1980s, who were born analogue and became digital adults. But the evidence for their existence isn’t as clear-cut as we might hope.
It’s become fashionable to suggest that generational designations are arbitrary or a ‘myth.’ But social scientists can pinpoint generational and cultural changes with a surprising degree of accuracy.
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