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2:48 PM, May 10, 2012 • By GEOFFREY NORMAN

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We are the ones ... who are waiting tables and living in our parents' basements. According to Gallup:

Thirty-two percent of 18- to 29-year-olds in the U.S. workforce were underemployed in April, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment. This is up from 30.1% in March and is slightly higher than the 30.7% of a year ago.

The youth vote went massively for President Obama in 2008. Validating, yet again, Menckin's famous and trenchant insight:

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

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2012 Elections, Economy, Jobs, Unemployment, Youth

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