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From The Atlantic, by Adam Clark Estes<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

New census data<\/a> released Thursday casts a shadow over the long-term impact of the recession on America\u2019s youth. During the last decade, the unemployment rate for young people spiked to the highest levels since World War II\u2013only 55 percent of Americans aged 16 to 29 have jobs, a 12 percent drop from the employment rate in 2000. Faced with a grim outlook, many young people aren\u2019t leaving home until their 30s\u2013the number of Americans\u00a0aged 25 to 34 living with their parents jumped 25 percent during the recession.\u00a0Last month,\u00a0The New York Times<\/em> called<\/a> the collective youth \u201cGeneration Limbo,\u201d but after seeing the new census data, Harvard economist Richard Freeman takes it a stage further. \u201cThese people will be scarred, and they will be called the \u2018lost generation\u2019\u2013in that their careers would not be the same way if we had avoided this economic disaster,\u201d Freeman\u00a0told<\/a> The Associated Press\u2026.<\/p>\n

Pointing to Ivy League graduates on welfare and twentysomethings with nothing to do,\u00a0The Times<\/em>describes the American\u2019s lost generation as an apathetic crowd:<\/p>\n

Meet the members of what might be called Generation Limbo: highly educated 20-somethings, whose careers are stuck in neutral, coping with dead-end jobs and listless prospects.<\/p>\n

And so they wait: for the economy to turn, for good jobs to materialize, for their lucky break. Some do so bitterly, frustrated that their well-mapped careers have gone astray. Others do so anxiously, wondering how they are going to pay their rent, their school loans, their living expenses\u2013sometimes resorting to once-unthinkable government handouts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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