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Kurt Bauschardt/Flickr 25 Is the New 21
For some parents, the deadline for a kid's financial independence has gotten an extension.
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Rebecca Cook/Reuters Cities Are Eliminating the Healthcare Benefits Once Promised to Retirees
Can Obamacare fill in the gaps?
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Cities Are Reneging on Health Care Benefits
Can Obamacare fill in the gaps for retirees like former Detroit police officers?
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Jim Young/Reuters The Safer, More Affordable Abortion Only Available in Two States
Medicated abortions provided via telemedicine can help bring down costs and get women care earlier in their pregnancies, but opponents have blocked them throughout the country.
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josefkubes/Shutterstock Why Robots Could Be Awesome Whistleblowers
Workers don't want to be replaced by algorithms or machines. But when it comes to the risky act of exposing corporate wrongdoing, perhaps they could be our friends.
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Millennials Really Don't Like Big Banks. That's Going to Disrupt the Financial Services World.
Seventy-one percent of millennials would rather go to the dentist than listen to anything big banks have to say.
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Four Ways to Help Millennials Break into the Tight Housing Market
A former top Obama housing official says it's a myth that millennials don't want to buy homes. But government and lenders could make it easier for them.
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National Journal How Denver Leaders Pulled Off a Public Transit Miracle
Voters agreed to tax themselves for a commuter rail network. Then a budget shortfall almost doomed the whole project. Now it's on track to completion.
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National Journal Denver's Housing Crunch Could Threaten Its Popularity With Millennials
Condo construction in the city has essentially halted, and that's driving up the cost of homes, as well as apartments in the trendy downtown neighborhood.
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Why Millennials Should Worry About Their Parents
Generation X-ers and late-wave Boomers aren't faring so well economically, and that hurts the next generation.
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Kristoffer Triplaar, for National Journal Boosting Hispanic Share of STEM Workforce Crucial for Economic Growth
As the young demographic grows, public-private partnerships are working to place Hispanic millennials in one of the country's fastest-growing fields.
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Nomadic Lass/Flickr The College Where Students Can Minor in Craft Beer
"And then I realized, holy cow, I could teach a course just on beer. And then I said, 'Well, really, I could teach a whole major on beer.' And then I thought, 'Well, I'll just settle for a minor.'"
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This College Actually Lets Students Minor in Craft Beer
Reflecting the interest of millennials in brewing and drinking small-batch, hyper-local beer, Paul Smith's College now offers a minor in the business of craft beer.
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Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters How Millennials Spend
They prefer their foods organic, their products natural, and their banks small.
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Is Sweetgreen the Ultimate Millennial Brand?
Started in 2007 by three millennials, the health fast-food company sells locally sourced salads, cold-pressed juices, and a socially responsible image.
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The Financial Habits of Millennials In Four Charts
What the way young people choose to spend their money means for the economy.
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Atlanta's Housing Recovery Is a Tale of Two Cities
Atlanta home prices are up 14 percent over the last year. But minority suburbs remain underwater.
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National Journal Looking to Fund a Clean Energy Project? You Need a Green Bank.
New state-run investment funds could create a real marketplace for alternative energy projects — and bring down costs for all of us.
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National Journal Argentina's Stock Exchange Is Down After World Cup Loss
And Germany's stock exchanged closed up. Coincidence?
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National Journal For Germany and Argentina, a World Cup Loss Could Mean a Stock-Market Dive
Losing a major soccer game hurts the self-esteem of a nation so much that it affects investor moods.
