Blueprint for the Millennial America

"Millennials are the largest generation in American history, and will constitute 33 percent of the eligible electorate by 2016.  As we take our first steps into the“real world” — graduating college, forming our political beliefs, launching our careers, even beginning families — the United States is mired in a deep economiccrisis, forcing all of us to reflect on the future that we will inherit. Amid this culture of political gridlock, young people across the country have joined together to design a Blueprint for the Millennial America— a vision for the country that reflects our shared priorities and our unique experiences. And we’re taking action today to start achieving it. We are defining what it means for our nation to flourish and creating the country we want to inherit.  Past generations have made incredible progress — women’s rights, a superpower economy, the Civil Rights movement, and extraordinary advances in tech-nology. But they have also left Millennials, young people born between 1980 and 2000, with looming federal debt, historically high wealth disparity, alarming environmental concerns, unstable foreign relations, years of endless war, suburban sprawl, and underperforming healthcare and education systems. In many major measures — our commitment to human rights, educational achievement, average income, and life expectancy among others — America is falling behind.

 

The challenges facing our generation are arguably greater than those faced by any other in America’s history.  Maybe this is why so much has been saidabout us on our behalf — debates about whether we are “Generation Me” or “Generation We,” civic-minded or self-involved, functionally illiterate or hyper-informed, engaged or apathetic, reactionary or progressive.  In March 2010, we started a movement — Think 2040 — to express, with our own voices, our American dream."

 

Check out this snazzy video to introduce Think2040, a movement for young America, and their own agenda for 2012 policy: