Hillary Rodham Clinton is running as the most liberal Democratic presidential front-runner in decades, with positions on issues from gay marriage to immigration that would, in past elections, have put her at her party’s precarious left edge. The moves are part of a strategic conclusion by Clinton’s emerging campaign: that […] Read more »
Youth still favor Democrats, Clinton, but margins tighten
Nearly half of young American voters do not have confidence in the justice system, according to a new Harvard survey of millennials. The poll of 18-29 year olds released Wednesday by Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP) found an even 49%-49% split among the age group on the question of the […] Read more »
Brown, Gray, and Urban
… In our era, the United States is experiencing two demographic transitions: It is growing more diverse, especially in its youth population, and it is also aging, as the predominantly white baby boomers move toward retirement. … These two giant blocks—what I’ve called “the brown and the gray”—have become the […] Read more »
Are millennials up for grabs in 2016?
Anthony Salvanto speaks with John Della Volpe of Harvard’s Institute of Politics. Read more »
Who millennials trust, and don’t trust, is driving the new economy
By PricewaterhouseCoopers’ projection, the biggest sectors of the “sharing economy” — including transportation and travel companies like Uber, Zipcar and Airbnb — could be pulling in as much as $335 billion in global revenue by 2025. … We’re witnessing the rise of companies predicated on trust among strangers at the […] Read more »
The ‘newsless’ myth: How Millennials consume the news
Many people believe that America’s first digital generation is “newsless.” Conventional wisdom dictates that one of the many reasons for print newspapers decline is due to low readership rates among Millennials, and that very few of them read the news at all. To complicate the picture further, it’s widely viewed […] Read more »