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Understanding the YOLO Generation

Published: 26 April 2013

Millennials are bold, inquisitive, ambitious and adept. If this demographic had the chequing accounts to match, they’d be a marketer’s dream. Unfortunately, they’re totally broke.

Youth unemployment rates are grim (14.1%), and many bright-eyed young graduates will stay jobless and deep in debt for a long time (the average Canadian university student takes 14 years to pay off their loan).

“There’s a sense that the world is not quite as welcoming a place to them,” says Karl Moore, an associate professor at Ŕ¦°óSMÉçÇř’s Desautels Faculty of Management and contributor to Forbes. That sense of alienation from the mainstream economy imposes critical consequences on their consumer habits.

Read full article: , April 22, 2013

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