, ‘I’m doing it.’ And he never got to run that race,” Donley said.
And so, Donley pledges to finish his son’s race. He’ll run for Lew’s legacy, and along the way, he’ll remember the words he sang.
“‘When you’re weak, I’ll be strong,’ and sometimes when I’m running and I feel like I don’t have the strength to do it, I think of his voice singing that line and it helps,” Donley said.
Donley asks you to help him shatter the amount he previously raised for Team World Vision, as a part of Lew’s Legacy. Here’s a link to his fundraising page.
Generation K: Why today’s teens are more careful with their money
February 25th, 2016
With the financial press full of headlines about feckless millennials who’d rather splash their (minimal) cash at pop-up burger bars than save to buy a house, it’s easy to write younger generations off as irresponsible lost causes.
But research to be unveiled on Thursday by the economist Noreena Hertz has identified that 14-to-21-year-olds, whom she has dubbed “Generation K” for their love of The Hunger Games heroine Katniss Everdeen, are actually quite financially prudent as a result of growing up during a recession.
Hertz, who has published other aspects of her research before, surveyed nearly 2,000 people aged between 14 and 21 in the U.K. and U.S. and conducted focus groups and interviews with 16-to-18-year-olds in the U.K. “They’re actually a very surprisingly financially cautious generation,” she tells Newsweek. “This isn’t the irresponsible teenagers of yore.”
As a result, they’re more likely to save as a precaution than “the next couple of generations up.” Every participant in a recent series of focus groups with 16-to-18-year-olds told Hertz they were consciously saving money for later in life. Some 72 percent of Generation K are worried about debt, says Hertz. “They’re putting their babysitting money and their odd job money” into their savings, she says.
While these teenagers are very much “tech heads,” says Hertz, they are also aware of the potential dangers that new technology brings. “Something that I found really interesting was how much they consciously chose to use cash,” she says. “Very openly saying that with cash they feel that they know what they’re spending, whereas on a card it’s so hard to stay on top of that.”
Hertz asked one focus group to imagine a technology product or app that would be most useful to them in their financial decision-making. “One of the teenagers said to me: ‘The most useful thing would be an app which, each time I was going to buy something, sent me a message which said, Do you really need this?’”
The attitudes of Generation K have been shaped by the turbulent times they grew up in. “I think they are a distinct generation to the older millennials, the 21-to-30-year-olds,” says Hertz, adding that they “really have come of age during this economic downturn. [The] messages they’re getting from their parents and from their schools and from the media [are] that this is a tough, hard, harsh, unequal world that they have to fight and they’re going to have to be self-reliant.”
Perhaps as a result, trust in government is very low among those surveyed. Just one-in-ten people in Generation K trusts government to do the right thing. “The social contract has been destroyed between government and this generation,” says Hertz.
Hertz will unveil the research on Thursday at a conference to launch the ING bank’s Think Forward Initiative, which aims to understand financial decision-making to help consumers make better choices. ING CEO Ralph Hamers says it is crucial to help younger generations manage their finances well.
“If the new generation does not plan very well, is not interested in finances, [if] they are much worse off than the current leading generation, that will only…increase the difference between the better off and the worse off,” he says. “That in itself actually polarizes society.”
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Wary of Gary.
Let me start off by saying that I would like nothing more than to be able to support a Liberty candidate and vote for him this November. I have tried so hard, many times to get myself in the mood for Gary Johnson. Each time I was kidding myself.
You should know that you are free to comment and argue with me, but the purpose of this post is not necessarily to convince people not to vote for Gary Johnson, but just to further explain why I am not going to do so. This may seem unnecessary, but seeing as how this blog had hitherto been given the expressed purpose of supporting Ron Paul, in its own limited way, and that I will be ramping up the volume and frequency of posts, I feel obliged to explain why none of these posts will be featuring support for Johnson’s candidacy, and will instead be more issue-oriented (with the occasional hit piece on Obama or Romney).
So. What exactly is my problem with Gary Johnson? I’ll tell you. It’s not that he’s not a nice guy. It’s not that I doubt his sincerity. It’s not that I would prefer Obama or Romney. And it’s not just the very few (or perhaps there are more than I initially anticipated) things that he and I disagree on. But it is, in part, the things he, at times, seems focus on. I can’t listen to the guy without him blah-blah-blahing about gay marriage, taxing marijuana, flip-flopping on everything from heroin to NAFTA, and plenty of other meaningless distractions, all the while that they are mostly distractions he is still going in the wrong direction or not near forcefully enough in the right direction. Sure, he brings up the wars, the Pentagon budget, says he wants to bring the troops home, audit the fed, things like that. And the strange thing is I don’t necessarily disbelieve him. I just think that these things, the real issues, the real issues, the real issues, would be put on the back burner, or more so than they should be. It’s the economy stupid! And as long as you are going to talk about and do things that have virtually nothing to do with the economy, the very least you could do, if you want my support, or my vote, is talk about and do these things in a way I can agree with.
I have said that I would