Unemployment has always been an issue in America, and according to young Americans, politicians are trying to solve it in ways that simply won’t work. The cliché solutions coming from both parties are tax-cuts and stimulus, but millennials are opposing these solutions. In fact, these young Americans have developed many proposals of what can be done to help solve the unemployment crisis, rather than what most politicians are currently proposing. These proposals are stated, explained, and analyzed in chapter 2 of the book When Millennials Rule: The Reshaping of America published by Posthill Press in 2016, and written by millennial political journalists David and Jack Cahn, who are actually a part of the millennial generation themselves. With
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This article extends the idea that colleges need to do a better job in preparing students, by arguing that millennials are lagging in the workforce, and part of the reason, explained by Carnevale’s center at Georgetown, is that “graduates are feeling let down by their universities” (McGrath 17). She reaches out to an audience of non-millennials, to inform them on the crisis of millennial unemployment and why it is such a big issue. With that said, she has a similar audience to the Cahns, and she also extends the their argument by addressing how not only do colleges need to do a better job preparing their graduates for the workforce, but recruiters need to be more “transparent in hiring”, because young people are “frustrated by the technology walls” they face when applying for jobs. The mainstream article, “4 Reasons Millennials Need To Push For Education Reform In America”, by Yannik Van Den Bos has a different approach. Unlike the other articles, this article mostly reaches out to the audience of millennials, rather than non-millennials. While the Cahns generally focus on ways that non-millennials need to step up and do something about our millennial unemployment crisis, this article, meant for non-millennials, is intended to motivate millennials to push for reform, rather than being a “cog in the system” (par 1). Van …show more content…
In this case, Raidt, a non-millennial, and argues that millennial unemployment is not only “threatening the quality of life for the millennial generation, but for us all” (Raidt 1). As a non-millennial, he makes it apparent that this issue will affect generations other than millennials. Reaching out to an audience of other non-millennials, he intends to make them realize that this a major problem for them too, because if young people aren’t employed, then they won’t be able to “pay off the staggering U.S. Student Debt” or “help sustain our deeply strapped Social Security and Medicare systems” (Raidt 2). Millennials are looking for support on this issue, because it’s not only affecting the younger generations but the older generations as
This article extends the idea that colleges need to do a better job in preparing students, by arguing that millennials are lagging in the workforce, and part of the reason, explained by Carnevale’s center at Georgetown, is that “graduates are feeling let down by their universities” (McGrath 17). She reaches out to an audience of non-millennials, to inform them on the crisis of millennial unemployment and why it is such a big issue. With that said, she has a similar audience to the Cahns, and she also extends the their argument by addressing how not only do colleges need to do a better job preparing their graduates for the workforce, but recruiters need to be more “transparent in hiring”, because young people are “frustrated by the technology walls” they face when applying for jobs. The mainstream article, “4 Reasons Millennials Need To Push For Education Reform In America”, by Yannik Van Den Bos has a different approach. Unlike the other articles, this article mostly reaches out to the audience of millennials, rather than non-millennials. While the Cahns generally focus on ways that non-millennials need to step up and do something about our millennial unemployment crisis, this article, meant for non-millennials, is intended to motivate millennials to push for reform, rather than being a “cog in the system” (par 1). Van …show more content…
In this case, Raidt, a non-millennial, and argues that millennial unemployment is not only “threatening the quality of life for the millennial generation, but for us all” (Raidt 1). As a non-millennial, he makes it apparent that this issue will affect generations other than millennials. Reaching out to an audience of other non-millennials, he intends to make them realize that this a major problem for them too, because if young people aren’t employed, then they won’t be able to “pay off the staggering U.S. Student Debt” or “help sustain our deeply strapped Social Security and Medicare systems” (Raidt 2). Millennials are looking for support on this issue, because it’s not only affecting the younger generations but the older generations as