Liz Shuler, Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO writes that "in the past 10 years, young workers have suffered disproportionately from the downturn in the economy:

• One in three young workers is worried about being able to find a job--let alone a full-time job with benefits.


• Only 31 percent make enough money to cover their bills and put some aside--that is 22 percentage points worse than it was 10 years ago.


• Nearly half worry about having more debt than they can handle.
  One in three still lives at home with parents.


• Young workers are living the effects of a 30-year campaign to create a low-wage workforce. It has succeeded.


• For decades, the far right led an anti-government, anti-investment, feed-the-rich-and-starve-the-poor drive that gave us an era of deregulation, privatization and job exporting."

[The Huffington Post; December 2009]

If you're reading this blog post, chances are you're a social networker. According to a Anderson Analytics study published last summer, social networkers utilize popular Websites such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn in different ways depending on their age.

My generation, Generation X, 30-to-44-year-olds, and baby boomers, 44-to-65-year-olds, connected on LinkedIn more than any demographic.

Check out eMarketer's story for more information.

2009 Deloitte LLP Ethics & Workplace Survey
(Published Thursday, May 28, 2009)
[online@ Deloitte Web site

In 2007 Sharon Allen, Deloitte LLP’s chairman of the board, commissioned the first annual Ethics & Workplace Survey. The inaugural study looked at the relationship between career-life fit and ethical behavior at work. In 2008, the research focused on how leadership transparency translates into a more productive and ethical workforce. This year, the study addresses the reputational risk associated with the increased use of social networking.

[Download Survey]

Photo Credit: Ron Sniffin, WY
Met this past week with over 60 folks from NEA's Northern Tier group to discuss attitudes about social networking. Among the largest barriers to adoption of social media practices at the association level are time and lack of knowledge of social media tools--"assuming I know how to use these tools and I agree that they have the potential to be effective, explain to me how they'll save me time ..."

You can download the following training documents:

[Presentation]
[K-12 Attitudes Survey] (A Survey of K-12 Educators on Social Networking and Content-Sharing Tools)