Sentences with phrase «half of young people»

She's reached hundreds of thousands of young people across the globe.

«A lot of young people are looking for purpose and meaning, and to give them that sense of belonging is a big part of what a brand needs to do,» Song says.

There is an army of young people like Bosche waiting to build things.

«(I had) this dream that from a tiny acorn, the potential of a young person, could grow this massive oak tree... as Nelson Mandela said: «Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.»

Drop CEO and co-founder Derrick Fung said, «There's a demographic of younger people who want things to be simple, seamless and fun.

But he insists that the skill set is a valuable one to cultivate regardless of a young person's career ambitions.

Platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat can offer benefits, but on the whole, most studied had a net negative impact on the health and well - being of young people according to the researchers.

But from The Simpsons to the web, much of what the latter claims for their own actually made its way into popular culture through a group of young people with an altogether different world view from the idealistic, perennially frustrated young consumers that obsess marketers today.

The analysis, done by Millennial Branding and analytics company Identified.com, was created by a team of data scientists crunching raw information from 4 million Facebook profiles of young people to uncover how they are representing themselves on Facebook — and whether they're using the social network for business purposes.

Cambodia has a couple of other things going for it: Angelina Jolie and a generation of young people determined to rebuild their country from the poverty of previous generations and heal the scars of the genocide.

Tim Elmore, president of Growing Leaders, said the trend of younger people feeling more comfortable learning through screens is especially important in the world of education.

Is there any way to slow the clock at this physical level and nudge your brain to resemble that of a younger person?

While there's sometimes no substitute for lived experience, there are also plenty of books that can save you a whole lot of heartache by teaching you basic skills that lots of young people end up learning way later than they should.

Two - thirds of young people agree with a smaller majority of Americans overall that the government should make sure people have health care coverage.

I think a lot of young people [get told] you have to do this for five years and then you can move up.

Only about a quarter of young people want «Obamacare» repealed.

The ratio of young people has been dropping off a cliff.

Today's hyper - connected, hyper - informed millennials are acutely aware of this, as many of these young people emerged from college amid the great recession.

But China novice or not, when he says that «it seems as if this place is moving at such light speed that a lot of young people don't get a chance to have a second thought,» he's right.

Mozaffarian also mentioned that the disproportionate number of younger people drinking sugary beverages compared with elderly people would dramatically increase the number of people who have diseases related to the drinks.

Apple shareholders Jana Partners and the California State Teachers» Retirement System are urging the smartphone maker to take steps to address what they say is a growing problem of young people getting addicted to Apple's iPhones, Jana partner Charles Penner said.

Successful leaders of young people are incorporating such activities and values into their business models and communicating them in com - pelling ways.

Unless we face the problem and make meaningful changes, it's not going to get any better for Baby Boomers, or the glut of younger people who look more like the non-prime Baby Boomers than their more fortunate prime counterparts.

That means thousands of young people and new Canadians will not get that first job, and many more might be laid off.»

Or is this one group of young people who actually have something special going for them that's going to stick?

Levels of depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts have gone up in the last ten years,» notes Cowart, as well as a great many others concerned about the mental health of young people.

They see the new dream as a matter of a young person just not knowing what they want.

As Richard Settersten, author of Not Quite Adults: Why 20 - Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It's Good for Everyone, has said: «the media focuses so much on coddled kids, but there's a huge, invisible class of young people that's just not part of our public discussion and who are really in dire straits.»

«Right now, millions of young people are turned on by a 74 - old - year socialist scolding Wall Street; millions of others by a reality - TV star with a 1950s view of women.

Some of the younger people are like, «Was he a singer?»»

I think the chance to help strengthen the foundation of young people going into business, as I did, just appeals to me.»

About 5 % of young people aged 18 to 24 said they drink with their colleagues every day, and the 45 - 54s were the group who had been fired the most times for turning up to work drunk.

Countries like Greece and Italy, that were once the homes of great empires and nation states have in the modern age been laid low by financial crisis, recession and a whole «lost» generation of young people — 40 percent in Italy and almost 52 percent in Greece — who are unemployed.

The number of young people who want to make a difference in this world and do something positive, create a solution, solve a problem, bring people together, and help those in need is astounding.

But for every tale of a young person building a start - up in their dorm room or boldly launching a career in social entrepreneurialism from their parents» sofa, there are plenty of press reports of grads who are underprepared for the rough - and - tumble realities of today's economy and fail to find their professional footing.

Hack the minds of young people.

They looked at data from thousands of young people who were interviewed about physical attractiveness three times between the ages of 16 and 29.

Some commentators have called the current crop of young people entering the workforce the most entrepreneurial generation in years.

«We have a lot of young people we encourage to go as far as they want to in the company,» he explains.

Yet, without the proactive assistance from The Foundling and our partner training schools, the resumes of most of these young people would never have received more than a glance.

«And there are a lot of young people in their twenties and thirties who get these prolonged respiratory issues in the winter.

Anybody that competes for the attention of a young person [is an Adidas rival].

In response to such a call from the G - 20 in Washington, D.C. last week, Germany's finance minister side stepped the issue and talked about the need for the ECB to start withdrawing its money market liquidity — i.e., whatever remains of a meager life support to economies crushed with 19 million people out of work and 3.6 million of young people unable to find jobs and make a living.

By expanding its focus to anything «that competes for the attention of a young person,» the company may have gained a competitive edge.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The International Monetary Fund said Wednesday that nearly a quarter of the Middle East's youth are unemployed, warning that unless deeper reforms are made, millions of young people entering the labor market each year may not find jobs.

Because wage growth is picking up — he expects incomes to expand by 3 % next year, up from 2 % this year — and there are a lot of young people who have put off home ownership and are now itching to get out of their parents» abodes.

It wasn't quite the lawn bowls set, but the groups of young people, the meandering older couples, the wild - eyed men of the street, even the spivs and small time tough guys, were all singularly non-threatening.

As is the case in India, which also has a high percentage of young people, this is seen as an opportunity for the country's future productivity.

Remember a few years back when, instead of heading out into the world, droves of young people either stayed, or returned to live, with their parents, or ended up having more roommates in even tighter quarters to make the rent?

If you look closely they are very involved in art events, photography, and a lot of young people seem to be attracted to them.