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Baby Boomers Vs. Millennials: Eerily Similar?

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While most millennials were brought up in the age of the computer, baby boomers can remember a time when they weren’t surrounded by technology. It’s a peculiar dichotomy to compare millennials to their parents’ generation, the baby boomers. percent, millennials (who are in part to blame for this) aren’t the main contributing factor.

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Biden: Recovery Depends On Controlling Pandemic As ‘Very Dark Winter’ Approaches

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Biden said the leaders all agree that effort involves rallying the country behind a national strategy with robust public health measures such as mandatory masking, widely available testing of rapid results, scaled up production of life-saving treatments as well as therapeutics and “safe, equitable and free distribution of the vaccine.”.

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Afterpay Teams With Simon Before Holiday Shopping Season

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To help merchants and promote Afterpay in-store payment services to individuals before the busy holiday shopping season, buy now, pay later (BNPL) firm Afterpay and Simon have announced a national collaboration. Millennial and Gen Z shoppers are focusing on sustainable and ethical fashion and retail more than before.

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SoFi’s Trading Volume Surges, User Base Nearly Triples

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In regards to the company’s recent filing for a national bank charter, Noto said, “Being a national bank would really be critical strategically. The idea here was to give millennials and Gen Z, our target audience, access to a diversified portfolio of new economy companies and gig economy companies,” Noto said.

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Outdoorsy Makes Happy Campers Out Of RV Owners And Renters

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Outdoorsy definitely resembles Airbnb , with favorite destinations, specialty vehicles (such as refurbished VW microbuses ) and lots of host profiles and travel pictures. There is no Airbnb in Grand Canyon National Park. The millennials love mobility. Like Airbnb, Only Different. And yet, Cavins said, they’re totally different.

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Last Roar Of The Paper Tiger?

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Statistical swarms of millennials and Gen Zers report never having used a paper check. Instant” is becoming the posted speed limit nationally and globally for transactions. It got so bad that New York City became the first municipality in the nation to pass a law making it easier for freelancers to sue for payment.

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Summer Vacation Is (Almost) Here – Are Americans Still Heading Out?

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And after the long and seemingly endless winter that most of the nation just suffered through, declaring summer’s start as early as possible feels like the right move to make in 2018. Millennials: The Most, And Least, Vacation-Enthused Generation. People are still living paycheck to paycheck ,” McBride noted.