millennials, ages 18 to 30. how do they feel about this shifting, this shifting situation for education? it costs more. you're not guaranteed a job but you know you need it. >> there's tremendous concern out there. we know that as young americans that we need that education to get ahead. there's huge benefits from getting a college degree, but as you mentioned, the price of going to college is going up faster than inflation. it's going up faster than even health care, and unfortunately, the policy we're putting in place, like slashing aid to higher institutions at the state level and cutting pell grants are exactly the wrong policies that are going to make it more affordable to get an education. >> bring you in. the ability to go to college was a milestone for an individual and for a family. you know, has that milestone, the price of that milestone, changed, and how do we convince kids that, yes, it really is worth it to get a college degree? i'm real sorry it's going to cost you so much? >> it's true for kids t

despite those figures, only 2% of the millennials have joined the occupy movement. you might expect that number to be higher. we here at "the d.r. show" were certainly surprised by how small that is, but it does offer opportunity for growth. and even with all this discontent about the state of our country, this generation may well get drowned out in 2012, because they refused to get involved, even if it is for a candidate that they support, facing an electoral system where 94% of the time, the person who raises the money wins anyway. after a third -- about a third says they'll take the small step of putting a sticker on their car or a sign in their yard. 30% said they'd attend a rally. only 20% of those on twitter say they care enough to follow their candidate on twitter. maybe that's because nearly half of them choose a candidate that is none of the above. john del avolpe is the pollster. and john, i'll begin with you. it appears that the young people recognize that the electoral system is a gerrymandered system, that is purchased at auction, and until they are giv

. >> ruben, you've written about millennials and your millennials are comfortable about technology andk and you've written about this. does the workforce need to adapt to these millennials or do the millennials need to adapt to the workforce? >> a little bit of both. i hear sometimes from hundreds of employers whenever i write about this subject because they've all got a story to tell about some young person that they interviewed in their 20s who comes in with, okay, i work here, i'm doing you a favor, when am i going become vice president and there's a sense of not paying your dues and being in a hurry. my generation has a sense of immediacy about it. >> they go to one internet company over another because they say i can get it faster, faster, faster, so they want everything right now. >> and the young kids, there's this perception in the workforce that they need to learn how to play ball with the generation xors and the baby boomers and the silent generation is still working and don't expect to be handed as much as the boomers were in terms of government contracts and retirement. >>

we have been talking about millennials and boomerang generation. a survey by the national endowment for financial education, found in order for parents to support their children, 26% have taken on debt. 13% have delayed plans for a major life event such as getting remarried or buying a home. 7% have delayed retirement. here to talk about how parents are coping with boomerang kids, dr. christine carter? >> in fact it is. >> cheryl: the whole boomerang thing with parents, their kids say i need to move back home. how do parents react to that? >> first advice to react with compassion. a lot of different feelings might come up. parents may feel they have failed when their kids say they need to move back home. this is a part of much larger economic trend and bring the context into it. it's not a failure on the part of children. it's a situation that requires some compassion. >> cheryl: you think the parents feel a little guilty then? >> a lot of negative things may come up for parents, especially if they weren't planning on it. they invested a lot in the

and hate on me a vicious list called the millennial development of research and savvy trying to find good cures for more than two decades after all these years all they are is drugs that can slow the process but not stop is the situation changes here's executive director of the good day and u.n. undersecretary general michel cd that. seems to be the most discouraging bit early eighty's which has killed more than twenty five million people according to the u.s. around thirty three million people muck around fifty trying to be positive with all the time consuming work on where the country mr michel stevie's one of the experts for believe that's why he should not only be supporting hospitals it's time to meet not long ago you can reach strict now seven million people to people all around the world that's a great success of education tolerance says pacific. fleet. the city didn't come to a show how i know how are your thank you thank you very much for being with us well well i know you are tired you had a pretty rough schedule so once again thanks for having the time it's my pleasure i d

and aids on me and bush just west of the millennial development research i've been trying to find the cures for more than two decades but after all these years all they have is drugs that can slow the process not stock is the situation changes here's executive director of the usa and u.n. undersecretary general michel c.d.c. . says the most discovered in the early ages has killed more than twenty five million people according to the u.n. around thirty three million people are currently h.i.v. positive with almost half of them concealing work on where ok actually just a michelle city babies one of the experts or believe that's my view should not only be forty hospitals but minds to not long ago the reaches for aids treatment but now seven million people take it all around the world and it's a great success of education and tolerance says to see the baby. who is the city didn't come to a show how i know how are you thank you thank you very much for being with us well well i know you are tired. pretty rough schedule so once again thanks for having the time it's my pleasure i'm sure you w

i have a ton of friends in mississippi, who are that millennial generation.esn't appeal to them, and they are struggling for the next option. they are not going to vote for obama, but it's the middle ground between that. >> i thought that the commercial was offensive to republicans. i was looking -- i thought the best way for people to become a frontrunner was to insult the fact that gay and lesbian people can serve in the military and that faith is the answer, and gay and lesbian is not. part of the thing is to watch the internet, they put it on youtube and did likes and dislikes, and it was one to 100,000. >> yeah, and it had the most dislikes on youtube. >> when you think about who is sitting on the internet doing likes and dislikes -- >> well, i don't know if they are constituents. >> the crowd sourcing at its best. a youtube commentator. >> i want to know the kids who are not allowed to celebrate christmas. all the stuff he was hiding on in the ad, putting people, gays and lesbians on one side, and people of faith -- it was deeply out of touch. >> i am s

downturn by don't think we did a very good job i write about this in the book about the night the millennial change from new year's eve, 1999 levels was singing this was likely to happen. the rigidity pressing piece about how it overheated the market was and what could happen but we were worried about yankee's. we didn't see 9/11 coming. the spring before the attacks on 9/11 i had gone down to see the director of the fbi because i was working on computer heat, a story about these socks croesus into bigots it is a very well-organized computers to spread hate some people were murdered as a result of their actions and i wanted the fbi to cooperate with us on the documentary about how they solved hate crimes on the computer. they said that's not high on our list of priorities. you want to be looking at terrorism. i will never forget that. that was march before the 9/11 attacks and i walked out with my colleague and friend who was the president of nbc news, and we kind of talk about that and he said maybe we should look at that but a kind of faded away and then 9/11 happened. >> how do these fade

but i went -- i write about this in the book on the night of the millennial change from the new year'sve -- >> in europe. >> 1999. none of us was saying this was likely to happen. man from the "new york times" wrote a very pressing piece about how overheated the market was and what could happen. but the rest of the world we were worried about y2k. we didn't see 9/11 coming. the spring before the attacks of 9/11, i had gone down to see the director of the fbi because i was working on computer hate, a story about these racists and bigots who were using -- and it was very well organized computers to spread hate. they had -- some people had been murdered as a result of their actions. and i wanted the fbi to cooperate with us on a documentary about how they sort of hate crimes on the computer. and louis said that's not high on our list of priorities. that will work its way out you. ought to be looking at terrorism. i'll never forget that. that was like in march before the 9/11 attacks. and i walked out with my colleague and friend andy lack who's the president of nbc news. and we kind of ta

on the night of the millennials change from 1999, none of us was saying that this was likely to happen"the new york times" wrote a pressing piece about how overheated the market was and what could happen. though we were worried about y2k. we hadn't seen 9/11 coming. the this spring before they had -- 9/11 i've seen the director of the fbi louis freeh because i was working on computer hate, story about these racists and bigots who were using, and it was very well organized, computers to spread hate. some people had been murdered as a result of their actions and i wanted the of the eye to cooperate with us on a documentary about how this all take crimes on the computer. and louis said that's not high on our her list of priorities. you guys ought to be looking at terrorism. i will never forget that. that was like march before the 9/11 attacks and i walked out with my colleague and friend who is the president of nbc news and we kind of talked about that. he said maybe we should look into that but a kind of faded away. then 9/11 happened. >> how do these things fade away? >> it faded away b

we have really seen this generation, the millennials generation 18 to 34 roughly as sort of the bellwether for the results of a series of economic policy decisions most of which were made around the time that most of us on this stage were born that have really made it a lot harder for people to work or educate themselves into the middle class. so this story is about young people but also about the country and economic choices that are affecting everyone but for the generation coming of age exclusively under this economic paradigm it's really having an affect the we want to take a look at in this report to save young america. we wanted to both tell the story of what happened during the recession and where people are now and tell a broad generational contrast story. throughout the report, which looks at data in five different areas, we compare how young people are doing today in 2010 or 2011, whenever the latest data is, to how their parents were doing it the same point in their life in 1980, 18 to 34-year-olds. that allows us to really show this generational comparison. on the first factor

of college students, and the wonderful thing about this generation is you are in my opinion the millennials generation. you'll be the defining generation the country pays. and so, as i conclude and begin to open for questions i just want to end with where i started with the young lady who witold you. in 2002i ran for mayor and lost that election and there is a documentary dhaka called street fight and if you see somebody pumping your fist in the back -- it's like now one of the current tv documentary is to watch before you die. it won the film festival, the canadian film festival, and it was nominated for the academy award but it lost to a film called march of the dam penguin's. [laughter] that was the official title. i'm not making it up. that was the official title. they dropped the damn to be marked acceptable. i thought if morgan freeman was married in me shading in the morning and would win an academy award. [laughter] i make exceptions for pain gwen's. i hate those little flightless rodents. i'm not bitter or anything. it was a painfully election. i hope you go to netflix if you have

of college students, and the wonderful thing about this generation is you are in my opinion the millennials generation. you'll be the defining generation the country pays. and so, as i conclude and begin to open for questions i just want to end with where i started with the young lady who witold you. in 2002i ran for mayor and lost that election and there is a documentary dhaka called street fight and if you see somebody pumping your fist in the back -- it's like now one of the current tv documentary is to watch before you die. it won the film festival, the canadian film festival, and it was nominated for the academy award but it lost to a film called march of the dam penguin's. [laughter] that was the official title. i'm not making it up. that was the official title. they dropped the damn to be marked acceptable. i thought if morgan freeman was married in me shading in the morning and would win an academy award. [laughter] i make exceptions for pain gwen's. i hate those little flightless rodents. i'm not bitter or anything. it was a painfully election. i hope you go to netflix if you have

of college students, and the wonderful thing about this generation is you are in my opinion the millennials generation. you'll be the defining generation the country pays. and so, as i conclude and begin to open for questions i just want to end with where i started with the young lady who witold you. in 2002i ran for mayor and lost that election and there is a documentary dhaka called street fight and if you see somebody pumping your fist in the back -- it's like now one of the current tv documentary is to watch before you die. it won the film festival, the canadian film festival, and it was nominated for the academy award but it lost to a film called march of the dam penguin's. [laughter] that was the official title. i'm not making it up. that was the official title. they dropped the damn to be marked acceptable. i thought if morgan freeman was married in me shading in the morning and would win an academy award. [laughter] i make exceptions for pain gwen's. i hate those little flightless rodents. i'm not bitter or anything. it was a painfully election. i hope you go to netflix if you have

and the wonderful thing about just generation is you are in my opinion the millennial generation. you will be the defining generation the direction our country takes. and so as i conclude, and begin to open up for question, i just want to end where i started with the young lady who i told you, miss jones, who we named the building after. in 2002 i ran for mayor and lost that election. and there's a wonderful documentary about it called "street fight" and i see somebody pumping your fist in the back. it was a -- it's like now when i turn on tv, 50 documentaries die -- it actually won the tribeca film festival. it won the canadian film festival and it was nominated for a oscar and it lost to the march of the damn penguins they dropped the damn and left penguins. i'm a vegetarian but i make exceptions for penguin meat. i hate those little rodents. i'm not bitter or anything. i'm not bitter. [laughter] >> i lose this election. it was a painful election. i hope you get it on netflix and watch the movie if you have a chance. i'm really down and "esquire" magazine comes to me and says we

of college students, and the wonderful thing about this generation is you are in my opinion the millennialsn. you'll be the defining generation the country pays. and so, as i conclude and begin to open for questions i just want to end with where i started with the young lady who witold you. in 2002i ran for mayor and lost that election and there is a documentary dhaka called street fight and if you see somebody pumping your fist in the back -- it's like now one of the current tv documentary is to watch before you die. it won the film festival, the canadian film festival, and it was nominated for the academy award but it lost to a film called march of the dam penguin's. [laughter] that was the official title. i'm not making it up. that was the official title. they dropped the damn to be marked acceptable. i thought if morgan freeman was married in me shading in the morning and would win an academy award. [laughter] i make exceptions for pain gwen's. i hate those little flightless rodents. i'm not bitter or anything. it was a painfully election. i hope you go to netflix if you have a chance.