YWCA survey reveals women's priorities for Obama

More than three-fourths of young women, those ages 18-29 and known as Generation Y, want incoming President Barack Obama to make civil rights and racial justice top priorities of his administration, a survey says.

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Circuit City Tries to Reinvent Itself

Dressed in jeans and black T-shirts and armed with touch-screen laptops, Generation Y employees at "The City" help customers choose the latest gadgets.

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Middle- and high-school students devote an average of nine hours to social networking each week. Add email, blogging, IM, tweets and other digital customs and you realize what kind of hurried, 24/7 communications system young people experience today.

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Purists may despair that technology is killing the English language but the digital age spells a new era of communication, Australian academics and researchers say.

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According to a poll done by Pace University and the Participatory Media Network, only 22% of people in the 18 to 24 year old bracket bother to tweet.

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I would like to suggest that the Generation Y and the Net Generation are much the same people. The N-gen is written about by many. The one that I like best are the writings of Don Topscott (Growing Up Digital, Wikinomics, Grown Up Digital).

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This is a curious though rather nice summary of all the various Gen Y mythologies currently out there in the blogosphere.

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With the entrance into the workforce of Gen Y members, managers find it difficult to bridge the generation gap.

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From Politics, to Geography, to World Affairs, we are looking at the dumbest of all American generations... and that's saying a lot...

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Introducing PNC Virtual WalletSM, an online banking solution that provides on-demand access for online money management, online bill payment, spending and savings management, and more in real time.

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Apparently Gen Y are much like baby boomers and are referred to as "echo boomers". Not because they're crazy, misunderstood dreamers, but becasue they're revolutionaries, striving to change the world. Seriously.

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For millennials, race is more complicated than ever.

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It's the economy, dude. Young Americans, ages 18 to 29, are the most pessimistic age group when it comes to the nation's financial outlook, a new survey found.

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Moms that come from Generation Y use the Internet differently than those from Generation X, according to new survey results from Bonnier Corp.

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Tips to guide helicoptering parents to help their grads land a job. Covers things they might not know about, such as creating an online resume or VisualCV and building a professional brand online

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We've showed how Gen Y is going to change the web. In doing so, Gen Y is also changing the world. Despite all of this, the world of Generation Y eludes a lot of the previous generations. Generation Y is absorbed in a world made possible through technology.

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An article about a book that claims 'Generation Y' is the dumbest generation yet. The authors of this article describe why the book author thinks so, then explains why they think he's the dumb one.

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One subject that I have always been interested in is the cultural impact of generations. Each generation brings different changes to the cultural landscape and leaves a lasting impact. Well… except for generation Y or "generation whine" as some cynical experts call it.

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Many of you X'ers are not thrilled with corporate life. You tend not to trust institutions in general and deeply resent the Boomers' confident assumptions that you will be motivated by the same things that Boomers have long cared about.

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America's Literary Apathy

There's a disturbing trend afoot.

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Libraries in southeastern Michigan are turning the page on peace and quiet. Video game events at public libraries are drawing crowds of teens, including about 100 competing monthly at "Guitar Hero" at the Rochester Hills Public Library.

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Where are all the shining examples of civilazation??

It is in our nature to survive, our most basic instinct. And though the lines are consistently being dimmed by an ever changing society, we must remember the importance of higher learning.

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THE perception Generation Y are fussy job-hoppers who will not be amenable to staying with one employer for life, as was common in previous generations, is widespread. Managing this technologically-savvy generation is causing headaches for plenty of bosses, but leadership expert …

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WASHINGTON, Dec 30 (Reuters) - More than half of Americans visited a library in the past year with many of them drawn in by the computers rather than the books, according to a survey released on Sunday. Of the 53 percent of U.S.

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Of the 53 percent of U.S. adults who said they visited a library in 2007, the biggest users were young adults aged 18 to 30 in the tech-loving group known as Generation Y, the survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project said.

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Work Sucks

Last week, PostSecret ran a postcard written on a Target comment card that read, "The only good thing about this job is that it made me realize I want to do something MEANINGFUL."

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"There was the typical Thanksgiving-type stuff: turkey, mashed potatoes, the giving of thanks around the table," says Brian Harding, who hosted the celebration. "It's like my family Thanksgiving, but fun" of a different sort.

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