How Boomer Parents Can Set Financial Boundaries With Their Millennial Kids
You probably heard about Michael Rotondo, the 30-year-old New Yorker recently ordered by a judge to vacate his parents’ home. The story made national news — and for good reason. The notion of a young...
View ArticleWhat Boomers Should Do About All Their Stuff
Last year, I wrote a Next Avenue blog post for our boomer readers that went, well, viral: “Sorry, Nobody Wants Your Parents’ Stuff.” Now, here’s a question for boomers: What about your stuff? For an...
View ArticleWhat Can We Learn From the Spirit of the 1960s?
Of all the extraordinary years that make up the 1960s, I’ve long believed that 1968 was the most remarkable and quintessential. The 50th anniversary of ’68 is a good time to consider those days, and...
View ArticleMillennials Are Helping Their Boomer Parents Manage Finances
Since millennials (men and women age 22 to 37) are just getting started managing their money and launching their careers, many of their boomer parents are giving them financial advice. But here’s a...
View ArticleParents’ Support to Adult Kids: A Stunning $500 Billion a Year
Many millennials are having a tough time financially launching their adult lives and careers, what with the high cost of rent, student loans and health care, plus unreliable gig-economy income. So it’s...
View ArticleJFK’s 3 Enduring Legacies for Boomers
University of Houston history professor W. Andrew Achenbaum describes JFK's three enduring legacies for boomers. The post JFK’s 3 Enduring Legacies for Boomers appeared first on Next Avenue.
View ArticleWhy I Upended My Business to Focus on Boomers
Over the last decade or so, I’ve founded and grown companies in fields spanning everything from publishing to car sharing. Often, the businesses aimed to solve problems similar to ones I had personally...
View ArticleBoomer Blaming, Finger Pointing and the Generational Divide
“Don’t trust anyone over 30.” It’s a line made famous by ’60s activist Jack Weinberg when a San Francisco Chronicle reporter interviewed him about the ongoing Free Speech Movement at the University of...
View ArticleBoomers Show Greater Cognitive Decline Than Earlier Generations
The American baby boomer generation is not as cognitively sharp during middle age and later in life as previous generations, according to a recent study published online in the Journals of Gerontology:...
View ArticleHow the ‘OK Boomer, Let’s Talk’ Author Says Millennials Got Left Behind
In her provocative new book, OK Boomer, Let’s Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind, millennial author and journalist Jill Filipovic argues that baby boomers are largely to blame for the financial,...
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