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Forget Retirement Planning — Millennials Want Student Debt Help From Employers

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As a financial services firm, this was really concerning to us,” Hanson told The Boston Globe. “We We felt that providing a benefit like student loan repayment assistance helps us to address a very real financial concern that is impacting our employees directly.”.

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Matchmaking Millennials To The Experiences They Desire

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While millennials aspire to seek out meaningful experiences, they don’t necessarily have the spending power that enables them to do so. While on the other side of the coin, there are millennials who like to go out in groups, with budgets that may be more restricted but with time to go out more frequently.

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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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‘Stranger Things’ And Starcourt Mall Teach Us About Big Tech And Innovation

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Had I been in town, I might have used Google to find a store near me in Boston that carried the brand I wanted so I could try before I bought. The season takes place in the year 1985 – 10 years before eCommerce and Amazon, and seven years before today’s 27-year-old millennials were born.

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How Monetizing Referrals Is “Uberizing” Recruiting

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What the data shows is that 80 percent of millennials who characterize themselves as happily employed are open to learning about new opportunities, as long as they’re provided by a trusted relationship. Help us understand your market. In our very first year, we had over 10,000 referrals in the Boston market alone.

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How Platform Payments Are Reimagining Rentals

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Consumers, particularly millennials, are increasingly paying their bills online. are paid online, with 61 percent of those payments coming from millennials. Because these payments are such large dollar amounts, we’ve had to work really hard to establish trust between us, landlords and tenants. The Future of Rentals.

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Blue Apron Turns 7 As Meal Kit Industry Grows Up

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Social media was largely considered more friend than foe, most consumers still used passcodes instead of fingerprints to open their mobile devices, and Tom Brady was merely a great athlete instead of the fountain-of-youth demi-god he is today (PYMNTS is based in Boston, so just go with us on that one). The timing seemed perfect.

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