For young 'Millennials,' an American Dream deferred

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FORT WORTH, Texas -- Brooke Guidry, a certified teacher and former standout softball player at West Texas A&M University, left Texas for a promised job at a Las Vegas fitness center. But when the economy collapsed, so did that job prospect.

She returned to Fort Worth, moved back in with family members and now works in the mailroom of a local engineering firm. Recently, she began moonlighting as a referee at high school volleyball games.

Guidry, 26, is one of many young Americans who graduated from college into the Great Recession and its aftermath: a sluggish job market and stubbornly high unemployment that for them has translated into a late start at the American Dream.



Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/08/21/3851522/for-young-millennials-an-american.html#ixzz1VgY6cyMp

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1. k & r

[Hydra]

2. The American Dream seems to belong to another Era

So much so that Carlin correctly called it when he said, "It's call the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it..."

I don't see that changing. The top 1% is calling for sacrifice from the people who own 2.5% of this nation's wealth, while they own as much as the bottom 80%.

It's a reverse Robin Hood. No hope, no possibilities, no better future.