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The money lessons we fail to learn from the FIRE

Almost always, the FIRE movement lives up to its name. The lifestyle system has a lofty goal and a fiery approach. Call the FIRE a cult, a religion or just a movement, it is uncompromising in its final goal of earning financial independence and retiring early. Despite its fiery aims and objectives, many devotees of the FIRE movement fail to learn from it. More so because they fail to understand…

The money lessons we fail to learn from the FIRE

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Midwestern Youth of Color Are Using Art and Culture to Build Their Political Power

"In order to get connected to folks who are from communities where trust is not there, you have to reach people where they’re at.”

Millennials and Gen-Zers make up nearly 20 percent of the electorate; if only Millennials voted, the 2016 election would have looked a lot different. But young people vote at lower rates than older voters, and voters of color even lower still. In 2018, just three out of 10 eligible GenZ voters turned out—and the GenZ electorate is more diverse than previous generations, standing at 22% Hispanic, 14% Black, 5% Asian, and 5% other or multiracial.

The Midwest Culture Lab thinks it’s figured out how to convince those young people — especially young people of color — to turn out in higher numbers, and unsurprisingly, it comes down to messaging.

“Speaking from my experience as a member of the Black community,” says Nailah Johnson, cultural organizer with Leaders Igniting Transformation (LIT) in Milwaukee, one of the three Midwestern partner organizations that make up the Culture Lab, “there’s just so little trust for… folks in politics, especially policing, the criminal justice system and the courtroom,” they say. “But they’re all directly affected by politics, so I think in order to get connected to folks who are from communities where trust is not there, you have to reach people where they’re at.”

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Millennials, Gen-Z won’t date someone who doesn’t recycle Good News Notes: "The only things they don’t want recycled are pickup lines. When it comes to dating 20-somethings, there are few bigger turnoffs than putting refuse in the wrong receptacle, according to a…