In the World Happiness Report’s annual ranking of the happiest countries, the U.S. dropped to No. 24, its lowest position in the list’s 13-year history. Last year, the U.S. dropped out of the top 20 for the first time. The list is compiled from analysis of how a representative sample of residents from over 140 countries rate their quality of life.

Instead of scrolling TikTok or BeReal, Gen Z students' hours will be filled with activities such as cooking lessons, public speaking lessons, basketball training, and extra time to finish homework.

Child concentration issues in school can happen to many students. Most children have trouble paying attention in class at some point. When this happens, especially with young students, parents wonder why their child can’t focus and whether their child might have a learning difficulty.

There’s been a significant shift in Gen Z’s career trajectory, with a quarter of young people now categorized as NEETs—“not in education, employment, or training.” While some are stepping back to care for family members, many others are locked out of an increasingly competitive job market, where traditional office jobs feel just out of reach.

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Another in a long line of doom and gloom articles, however valid they may be. These articles are designed to be read in between daily, often fruitless and agonizing job searches, which increasingly involves one AI bot chirping at another, needlessly and endlessly, forming a hyperloop of dehumanizing despair. These articles, many likely written at least partially by AI, are like crack hits for the depressed, providing a false sense of solidarity. Don't send it to your Boomer parents, however, they'll just tell you to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and walk into your desired place of employment and demand a job (that no longer exists), like they did in the '70s and '80s. These articles get clicks because they do tap into something truthful, but ultimately, they put the doom in doom scroll. 

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Aformer coworker recently noticed that the young people in his office didn't seem to be doing happy hours anymore. He figured it was just a case of teetotaling Gen Zers, which is probably healthy, but still, it felt a little sad to imagine that kids these days weren't having as much after-work fun as he used to. But in the middle of his lamenting, a terrible thought crossed my mind: They probably are doing happy hours; they're just not inviting him. He's married, in his 30s, and has been a middle manager for a while now. His 20-something underlings might not want to make a habit of knocking one back with the boss — if anything, they're probably out complaining about him.

In 2024, we watched American life unfold beneath the golden arches—from Trump’s drive-through stunt to Luigi Mangione’s final hash brown.