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What is the key to being an adult? Clark releases new poll findings
Parents and their emerging adults rank ‘being responsible for yourself’ before money and marriage as key to becoming an adult What marks the beginning of true adulthood? Parents and their 18- to...
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Clark University Poll of Parents of Emerging Adults findings released
Emerging adults getting by with a lot of help from their folks; wide majority of parents providing the financial support they didn’t get in their twenties A vast majority of parents of today’s emerging...
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Clark University researcher asks: Is this the last acceptable prejudice?
COMMENTARY Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Clark University research professor of psychology As this year’s college graduates go forth into the world, they are entering a society that is in some ways decidedly...
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Clark Poll: Grown kids at home not cramping our style, parents say
The new Clark University Poll of Parents of Emerging Adults contradicts the long-held notion that adult children living with their parents are a source of stress and disruption in the household. The...
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Clark University Poll of Parents of Emerging Adults: College send-off can...
Forget those TV ads where parents gleefully anticipate “alone time” as they wave goodbye to their college-bound children. For most parents of emerging adults, back-to-school time means missing their...
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Clark University Poll of Parents of Emerging Adults: We had it tougher; their...
Most parents say their grown children have a better life than they did when they were young, but their current life satisfaction is surprisingly similar to their children’s, according to the new Clark...
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Clark University Poll of Parents of Emerging Adults: Most parents and kids...
Parents once had to beg their grown children to keep in touch. Today, not so much. Emerging adults (18- to 29-year-olds) are in daily or near-daily contact with their grown children, according to the...
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New Clark Poll finds millennials grown up, getting by, and OK about turning 30
The often criticized “Me Generation” could be turning into the “We Generation” Clark University, the nation’s leading institution tracking the development of Emerging Adults (18-29 year olds), released...
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Thirtysomethings on work: Most say enjoyment on the job trumps fat paycheck
New Clark University Poll finds established adults struggling yet hopeful This Labor Day may find many thirtysomethings working hard, often at less-than-ideal jobs. But, according to a new poll, most...
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Millennials with kids? They’re loving it
New Clark University Poll of Established Adults finds thirtysomething parents happy despite the strain A remarkable 86 percent of 25- to 39-year-olds with children say “more joy” is a consequence of...
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New Clark University Poll: Grown-up millennials are closely connected to parents
You know those holiday-dinner movie scenes, where aging parents and their grown children serve up bitter resentments or long-held hostilities? Good drama, maybe, but merely an escape from reality for...
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Clark Poll: Married or not, most grown-up millennials say they have found...
For a generation that has grown up amid a parental divorce rate of 50 percent, most millennials – now in or near their thirties, are succeeding remarkably well in their love lives, so far. Clark...
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Clark University Poll: Established Adults enter 2015 feeling positive,...
The 2014 Clark Poll of Established Adults has issued its final report, which reveals that 25 to 39 years old are holding fast to the optimism and big dreams they expressed as younger or “emerging”...
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Entrepreneurial Clark senior’s promising startup aims to foster financial...
Clark University senior and entrepreneur Rebecca Liebman’s startup provides tools that teach financial literacy. “You’re doing too much. Try picking one direction.” That’s what Rebecca R. Liebman says...
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Reunion speaker: Millennials should be valued in the workplace
Lauren Stiller Rikleen ’75 delivers the Reunion Dinner keynote address. The millennial generation is lazy, entitled and disloyal. That all sounds pretty terrible if it’s true. But it’s not, Lauren...
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New Clark University Poll surveys emerging adults on work, education and...
Students are arriving on campuses around the country as another academic year begins. What draws them there and what do they expect from their college educations? And for those who do not go on to...
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Is college worth it? Clark Poll of Emerging Adults hears resounding ‘Yes!’
As stressed-out college students hunker down in labs and libraries or pull all-nighters writing papers or prepping for exams, they may find themselves wondering, “Is all this worth it?” And they’re not...
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Clark Poll of Emerging Adults: Good job matters most, even if social media...
There are those who think emerging adults won’t seek out or even accept jobs where they would be blocked from using social media during the workday. They’re wrong. The new Clark University Poll of...
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Clark Poll findings offer myth-busting evidence for stereotyped emerging adults
As millions of college students break from classes to spend time with their families, a common conversation they may hear at holiday gatherings will focus on perceptions about their generation,...
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Millennials with kids? They’re loving it
New Clark University Poll of Established Adults finds thirtysomething parents happy despite the strain A remarkable 86 percent of 25- to 39-year-olds with children say “more joy” is a consequence of...
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