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  • Congratulations, class of 2014: You’re totally screwed

    05/19/2014 12:06:25 PM PDT · by QT3.14 · 38 replies
    Slate ^ | May 18, 2014 | Thomas Frank
    Welcome to the wide world, Class of 2014. You have by now noticed the tremendous consignment of debt that the authorities at your college have spent the last four years loading on your shoulders. It may interest you to know that the average student-loan borrower among you is now $33,000 in debt, the largest of any graduating class ever. According to a new study by the Pew Research Center, carrying that kind of debt will have certain predictable effects. It will impede your ability to accumulate wealth, for example. You will also borrow more for other things than people without...
  • Wear wristwatch? Use e-mail? Not for Class of '14

    08/17/2010 8:57:37 AM PDT · by JoeProBono · 139 replies · 1+ views
    ap ^ | Aug 17 | DINESH RAMDE
    MILWAUKEE (AP) -- For students entering college this fall, e-mail is too slow, phones have never had cords and the computers they played with as kids are now in museums. The Class of 2014 thinks of Clint Eastwood more as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry urging punks to "go ahead, make my day." Few incoming freshmen know how to write in cursive or have ever worn a wristwatch....