With the economy still weak on the job-creation front, recent college graduates have found their hopes of launching a career quickly slipping away, reports The New York Times. Like the generation that came of age during the Great Depression, "Millennials" — 18- to 29-year-olds — increasingly must opt for jobs they do not want, if they can get a job at all. The unemployed are often stuck living in their parents' homes, tasked with odd jobs to earn money, with no greater relief in sight. Has the current recession crushed the American dream?
These brats are spoiled: The problem isn't that the American dream is dead, says Jessica Pressler in New York Magazine. It's that, "sometimes, when you're an adult, you have to do things you don't want to do" — a lesson this generation of entitled "twentysomethings" simply doesn't understand. Hopefully, they'll learn it before "the cycle of human life grinds to a halt in front of some dude's Wii."
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