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Impact of the Millennial Generation

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The Millennial Generation or "Gen Y" - those born between 1984 and 2002 - are growing up during a confounding time rife with technological advances and unprecedented sharing and collaboration against an omnipresent backdrop of political tension, international conflict and economic uncertainty. .

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Is Higher Education Too Expensive for the Middle Class?

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Born as the West was emerging from the trauma of the Second World War, graduating from university as hostility to the Vietnam draft plunged campuses into turmoil and helped to spawn the counter culture, the “ Baby Boomers” have been shaped by turbulent social and political change. Can only the Wealthy Can Afford College Today?

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Wise Economic Decision Making

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Wouldn't it be nice if our business, economic and political leaders had the honor and integrity to rise above their workday pressures and made decisions for the common good ? percentage points from GDP, based on the average of 2010's first three quarters. In 2005, housing accounted for 6.1 percent of economic activity in the U.S.

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The Path to Transparency

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Jacob Appelbaum, a developer for Tor who travels the world explaining Tor to human rights and social-justice activists, says that users periodically complain about the politics and motivations of other (self-identified) users. Source: Sunday Magazine, New York Times, December 19, 2010.

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It's the Economy, Stupid!

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The politically correct will find his language obnoxious, or so Murray dearly hopes. Charles Murray: Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. Murray’s second part details the declining hold of the “founders’ values” among lower-class white Americans.

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Integrated Marketing and Social Networks

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billion in 2010, according to research firm eMarketer. Using social network platforms to take the place of traditional news, political and commercial communication methods is quickly becoming the new normal. . So far, Facebook's key battleground has been in online marketing. of the U.S. market, which reached $8.88

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Wasted Human Capital

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A Georgetown University study of the class of 2010 at the country’s 193 most selective colleges found that as entering freshmen, only 15 percent of students came from the bottom half of the income distribution. Sixty-seven percent came from the highest-earning fourth of the distribution.