Young and emerging adults are lost, the conventional narrator
goes. Out of work, at professional and personal dead ends,
overly-dependent on parents and isolated from the “real world.”
For further elaboration, an episode of HBO’s “Girls” should do
it. Or look to our presidential candidates, who are in an
increasing tight race for probable voters, and so are talking
less about student loans these days and far more about Medicare.
A new study of this group suggests that this stereotype is far
off. Parents and politicians alike may be missing how engaged
these older kids and young adults are because their social
consciousness, like their social life, is flourishing online.
The findings come from a report produced by the Intelligence
Group, a company that studies youth trends and behaviors
primarily for the business community. The report certainly seems
to have crossover interest for parents as well as vote-seekers.
Researchers asked 900 young Americans questions related to their
social awareness, activism, and p