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Monday, Nov. 18
**What:** Blackboard: You Have Questions, We Have Answers
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Tuesday, Nov. 19
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When: 7-30 to 9 p.m.
Where: Kansas Union, Woodruff
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When: 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
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When: 12:30 to 12:45 p.m.
Where: Anschutz Library
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What: The Future of Food and Family Farmers: Thinking About Food Utopias When: Noon to 1 p.m.
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Thursday, Nov. 21
What: Pizza and Politics: In the Eye of the Beholder
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Where: Kansas Union, Centennial Room
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**Where:** Spooner Hall, The Commons
**About:** Lecture with Nicco Mele on how technology disrupts our lives.
Professor's study shows recession affects young adults
CODY KUIPER
Friedline's study, which will
ckuiner@kansan.com
A new study from a University professor is proving that the aftermath of the 2009 recession wasn't limited to adults and the unemployed. Terri Friedline, an assistant professor of social welfare at the University, found that young people are reeling from the Great Recession into young-adulthood as well.
According to a study Friedline co-authored, young people who grew up in households that lost net worth during the recession only average $300 in savings. Children in households that didn't suffer financially have an average of $3,000 in savings.
Friedline said even though a difference of $2,700 may not seem like a huge amount on its face, the ramifications for the future outweigh the numerical difference between the two groups.
"Somebody with $3,000 in savings or assets can invest in other types of assets, work toward a down payment on a house or car, so they can start to kind of build wealth that will sustain and benefit them for the rest of their lives," Friedline said. "Three-hundred dollars is the minimum balance average at most banks across the U.S., so you can barely make it into a very initial asset and your money isn't free to go anywhere, so it's not a great foundation."
be published in the Journal of Family and Economic Issues, used economic data from 1999 to 2009 from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to see how American families' wealth was affected by the recession.
Friedline expects there to be psychological effects for young people as a result of the Great Recession, and while she's unsure of what they will be, she said older generations suggest they will be significant.
"When this study came out, I received a number of people who had lived through the Great Depression and experienced their households losing a lot of wealth and financial stability." Friedline said. "Those emails suggest to me that those individuals were impacted enough to recognize the research here and apply it to their own experiences a really long time ago, and that this was something that greatly impacted them."
Conner Coleman, a junior from Kansas City, said watching the effects of the recession play out while he was in high school altered his perspective on economics, making him more aware of his impending financial independence.
"I have to take into consideration everything everyone's gone through when I make my financial decisions now," Coleman said. "You hear about all the stories about people not being able to pay their bills and their houses are being foreclosed, so I'm definitely
a lot more conscious with my decisions now than I would have been." Other economic research has also suggested young adults have more to worry about than just savings. New data from the 2013 census shows that young adults are putting off making big economic decisions like moving away from home and starting a family. Only about 23 percent of adults ages 25- 29 moved in the past year, which economists think suggests that young adults are skeptical about moving to other cities to find jobs. According to a Pew Research Study in 2012, 22 percent of young adults say they have postponed having a child because of economic conditions as well.
Maria Berry, a senior from Overland Park, says she doesn't plan on moving back home after graduation, but that doesn't mean she won't be putting parts of her adulthood on hold.
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"I'm a waitress for a corporate company, and I think I'm going to have to have them transfer me to wherever I move after college until I can get on my feet," Berry said. "I don't plan on buying a house anytime soon either, because I don't think I would be able to afford one. It's a personal thing too. I don't want to do all that until I'm married and in my thirties."
HOW YOUNG ADULTS HAVE BEEN HIT FROM THE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN
People 18-34 years old:
49% have taken a job they didn't want just to pay the bills.
24% — have taken an unpaid job to gain experience.
31% - have postponed getting married or having a baby.
35% have gone back to school as a result of the poor economy.
24% - have moved back in with their parents after living on their own.
All ages:
75% — say it's harder now for young people to save for the future than it was for their parents' generation.
69% — say it harder for young people to buy a home than it was for their parents' generation.
71% — say it's harder for young people now to pay for college than it was for their parents' generation.
2012 Pew Study: "Young, Underemployed and Optimistic"
WEATHER
WASHINGTON, III. — Dozens of tornadoes and intense thunderstorms swept across the Midwest on Sunday, leaving at least five people dead and unleashing powerful winds that flattened entire neighborhoods, flipped over cars and uprooted trees.
Tornadoes, damaging storms sweep across the Midwest
Illinois took the brunt of the fury as the string of unusually powerful late-season tornadoes tore across the state, injuring dozens and even prompting officials at Chicago's Soldier Field to evacuate the stands and delay the Bears game.
"The whole neighborhood's gone. The wall of my fireplace is all that is left of my house," said Michael Perdun, speaking by cellphone from the hard-hit central Illinois town of Washington, where he said his neighborhood was wiped out in a matter of seconds. "I stepped outside and I heard it coming. My daughter was already in the basement, so I ran downstairs and grabbed her, crouched in the laundry room and all of a sudden I could see daylight up the stairway and my house was gone."
An elderly man and his sister were killed when a tornado hit their home in the rural southern Illinois community of New Minden, said coroner Mark Styninger. A third person died in Washington, while two others perished in Massacus County in the far southern
In Washington, a rural community of 16,000, whole blocks of houses were erased from the landscape, and Illinois State Police Trooper Dustin Pierce said the tornado cut a path from one end of town to the other, knocking down power lines, rupturing gas lines and ripping off roofs.
With communications difficult and many roads impassable, it remained unclear how many people were killed or hurt. The Illinois National Guard said it had dispatched 10 firefighters and three vehicles to Washington to assist with immediate search and recovery operations.
part of the state, said Patti Thompson of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency. She did not provide details.
An auto parts store with several people inside was reduced to a pile of bricks, metal and rebar; a battered car, its windsheild impaled by a piece of lumber, was flung alongside it. Despite the devastation, all the employees managed to crawl out of the rubble unhurt, Pierce said.
"I went over there immediately after the tornado, walking through the neighborhoods, and I couldn't even tell what street I was on," Washington Adler Tyler Tereg told WLS-TV.
"Just completely flattened — some of the neighborhoods here in town, hundreds of homes."
By nightfall, Trooper Pierce said there were reports of looting in Washington.
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