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Baby Boomers Vs. Millennials: Eerily Similar?

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While most millennials were brought up in the age of the computer, baby boomers can remember a time when they weren’t surrounded by technology. It’s a peculiar dichotomy to compare millennials to their parents’ generation, the baby boomers. percent, millennials (who are in part to blame for this) aren’t the main contributing factor.

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Study: Virus Has Sent Most Adult Children To Live At Home

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One-third of millennials have been laid off due to the COVID-19, and another 42 percent said their pay has been cut, researchers reported. Last week, despite a better than expected jobs report, Boston Federal Reserve President Eric Rosengren told CNBC a full recovery will not be possible until COVID-19 is under control.

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12 Industries Experts Say Millennials Are Killing — And Why They’re Wrong

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Every few weeks, another story about the dreaded generation surfaces: millennials are killing casual dining; millennials are killing breakfast cereal; millennials are killing home ownership. Millennials aren’t shunning luxury goods; they’re just renting them instead of buying. Millennials are in debt.

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Mobile Payments: Samsung To Tackle Africa And Google The App Landscape

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Passport has designed similar mobile applications for the transportation systems in Chicago, Toronto and Boston. Millennials Eschew Bank Mobile Wallets. The study found that both millennials and non-millennials want to use mobile to manage finances, and cash is becoming less important to both groups.

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Is It Time For Apple To Allow Others Access To The iPhone NFC Chip?

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Source: PYMNTS.com longitudinal study of over 40,000 consumers (data from the most recent panel on Nov. This digital shift — doing less in the physical world and more in the digital world for the same activity — is based on 16 longitudinal studies that PYMNTS has conducted of a national sample of more than 40,000 U.S. consumers — 47.2

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The Rise Of Card-on-File Commerce

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One of the best things that happened last week was the reopening of hair salons in Boston. It doesn’t appear that this experience is exclusive to fancy hair salons in Boston. That’s likely why in PYMNTS’ national study of 14,000 consumers, more than half (58.6 This latest study of a national sample of U.S. population.

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Gradifi CEO On Disrupting Student Loan Disruption

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Drilling down a bit, in one study, by Oliver Wyman, 70 percent of college students who earn bachelor’s degrees borrow to get to their alma maters. The burden can be such, said the study, that student loan payments can exceed what it costs to lease a car or own a home. What’s On Offer.

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