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As many people know, the United States is in a major recession. It’s harder for the younger generation to get jobs. Many data has shown that there has been a growing gap of employment through age. Many Americans believe that they have been hit harder with college payments, loans, paying for their house, and even just getting a job. The article states that “Among young adults ages 18 to 34, only a third rated their financial situation as "excellent" or "good," compared with 54 percent for seniors age 65 and over” (“U.S. Jobs Gap”). Many of the “Occupy” supporters are the current younger generation and are also unemployed due to the economy. Studies may show that many young adults will slow down in ways such as living with parents, not getting married, and even not having children. This is due to the wages that have gone down and also job security. The younger generation has either tried to go back to school or have taken multiple odd jobs that not many people take. The younger generation unemployment has been one of the largest since WWII.
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 I believe that it is relevant to this course since we have discussed many problems with economy at certain times. We had talked about how the economy fell and the same with jobs during the early 1890’s. We have gone through many hard times like the U.S. did during the first couple wars like WWI and WWII. We will also get into the great depression era, which had a big effect on the economy and way of life. There was a lot of separation of work through the different races and pay class through the history of America.
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 This article works with Demographic Changes since it explains some of the issues of the current younger generation. It explains the jobs and percent of employment and happiness through the young and old. It shows the differences and how it can affect the future generation. One way it can affect the population is the amount of people. Since there is lower amounts of people having kids, due to recent recession, there could be less population. It may also affect the amount of people who go to college and who live on their own. This gap of work will most likely create a change in our future population and also how we will run our system of work.
 * Relevance to Theme: Demographic Changes **

 **Questions**
 * 1) How will these events affect the elderly? Will it be positive or negative?
 * 2) Will the gap ever come back down if the economy turns around?
 * 3) What are the percents for college goers and has there been an increase of financial help?
 * 4) How would the data change if they showed race? Gender? Education history?
 * 5) What are the effects of not getting married or having kids doing to the economy? Does it change in a positive or negative way?

Associated Press. “US jobs gap between young and old is widest ever”. [|www.foxnews.com]. Fox News, 9 Feb. 2012. Web. 16 Feb. 2012. <[]>
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