We are the ones … who are waiting tables and living in our parents’ basements. According to Gallup:
Thirty-two percent of 18- to 29-year-olds in the U.S. workforce were underemployed in April, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment. This is up from 30.1% in March and is slightly higher than the 30.7% of a year ago.
The youth vote went massively for President Obama in 2008. Validating, yet again, Menckin’s famous and trenchant insight:
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
