{"id":59449,"date":"2017-05-06T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=59449"},"modified":"2017-05-05T19:52:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T23:52:33","slug":"most-millennials-are-finding-it-hard-to-transition-into-adulthood-report-safia-samee-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2017\/05\/06\/most-millennials-are-finding-it-hard-to-transition-into-adulthood-report-safia-samee-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Millennials Are Finding It Hard to Transition Into Adulthood: Report [Safia Samee Ali]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/most-millennials-are-finding-it-hard-transition-adulthood-report-n748676\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Most Millennials Are Finding It Hard to Transition Into Adulthood: Report<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from nbcnews.com by Safia Samee Ali<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;It became too difficult financially to be in school and not working,&#8221; says Kaylor, who dropped out of Lincoln Christian University, in Illinois, after one semester because of a money crunch. &#8220;And without schooling, you can&#8217;t get a job that you can survive on, so I had to move back home,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Let&#8217;s pause right there. If higher ed is the gatekeeper into better salaries\/wage rates &#8212; i.e., the ability to make a living &#8212; then it must be affordable. Higher education has a big piece of this current situation. This is why a backlash against traditional institutions of higher education continues to build. When a lower cost &#8220;Amazon.com of Higher Education&#8221; comes along, many will take that route. Just sayin&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;In 1975, only 25 percent of men aged 25 to 34 had incomes of less than $30,000 per year. By 2016, that share rose to 41 percent of young men,&#8221; according to the report.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nIn 2015, one-third or about 24 million young adults, ranging from 18 to 34, lived with their parents, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&#8220;These individuals are the first to go through new demands in a drastically different job force than from one generation prior,&#8221; he said. So it&#8217;s no surprise the transition has been bumpy for many.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Millennials Are Finding It Hard to Transition Into Adulthood: Report &#8212; from nbcnews.com by Safia Samee Ali Excerpt: &#8220;It became too difficult financially to be in school and not working,&#8221; says Kaylor, who dropped out of Lincoln Christian University, in Illinois, after one semester because of a money crunch. &#8220;And without schooling, you can&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,115,57,159,35,178,3,560,480,293,66,212,321,214,299,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-colleges","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-game-changing-environment","category-generational-differences","category-higher-education","category-parents-guardians","category-society","category-sociology","category-student-related","category-surviving","category-united-states","category-universities","category-workplace","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59452,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59449\/revisions\/59452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}