Millennial Generation
Millennials Want to Retire at 50. How to Afford It Is Another Matter.
“You don’t want to have all of your savings in pretax retirement accounts that can be costly to use before age 59.5,” he said. Mr. Northrup will sometimes recommend that his millennial clients reduce their retirement savings to have more cash available for shorter-term goals like buying a house, taking a trip or paying down […]
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Gen Z Designers Made It Big on Depop. Now They’re Graduating.
On Depop, most of her interactions with customers happened only when they wanted to buy something, Ms. Lopez said. But on Instagram, she said, she could share more personal moments from her life through features like Stories — which people use to post photos and videos that disappear after 24 hours — so “people get […]
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Is the Dirty Shirley the Drink of the Summer?
It’s easy to track the movement of a Dirty Shirley at a bar: Look for a tall glass of Sprite with a gradient of bright red grenadine and a maraschino cherry floating on top. The flavor profile — syrupy, verging on sickly sweet. “It’s going to be a volcanic summer of Dirty Shirleys,” said Ashwin […]
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More Kids? After the Last Two Years? No Thanks.
For other older parents, the changes wrought by the pandemic helped clarify their limitations, in ways that were painful even as they brought them something akin to wisdom. Sarah Balcomb, a writer who has a 9-year-old daughter and lives in Lexington, Va., realized that she was permanently done with reproduction the way that Hemingway once […]
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I Lived the #VanLife. It Wasn’t Pretty.
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. For the most part, I don’t remember things. My memory is not so much vague as it is glitchy; a generally blank screen that sometimes blinks to life and performs basic recall tasks. With scarce exceptions, my […]
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The Fiddle Leaf Fig Is Dead. What’s the New Popular Plant?
“The ‘It’ plant is the quest,” said Katie Dubow, the president of Garden Media Group, a public relations firm that advises companies on market trends. “Everybody wants to have it, grow it, sell it.” People’s relationships with their plants deepened during the pandemic, industry experts say, and once trendy varieties started to seem dusty. Former […]
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Ukraine Crisis Rattles Europe After 30 Years of Peace
For the younger generation, concerned, like the German Greens, with the environment and focused on human rights and gender and racial equality, “this is 19th-century policy erupting and crashing into their 21st-century concerns,” he said. In the larger sense, Mr. Ricketts said, the conflict reminds Europeans of the importance of NATO and of American leadership […]
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What Social Trends Told Us About the American Economy in 2021
Burned-Out Boomers This may also have been the year that “OK, Boomer” ceded the floor to “You OK, Boomer?” A recent Federal Reserve survey of business contacts found that several “noted that baby boomers were leaving jobs and selling businesses to retire early — a trend that was due (1957 marked the peak year for […]
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