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The Power of the Millennial Generation…

#Millennials are big business—currently spending $200 billion annually! And by 2015, they should contribute 30% of all retail sales.

— Nielsen (@Nielsen)

March 25, 2014

FUSION is a tv & digital network that helps young people cut through the rhetoric, divisiveness, and conversation to the issues that truly impact the day-to-day lives of their generation. Fusion informs, empowers, and inspires its audience through a unique mix of programming that includes original reporting, investigative journalism, coverage of pop culture, satire and comedy programming, as well as original series and documentaries. Fusion takes on the conventional wisdom, asks the tough questions, tells the stories the mainstream media often misses – amplifying the voices of the new America.

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Fusion’s Alicia Menendez: Millennials Are “Relentlessly Optimistic” Despite Inheriting Tough Economic Environment

Fusion's Alicia Menendez spoke to NPR's David Brancaccio, host of “Marketplace Morning Report,” today about the challenges facing the millennial generation, a generation that has inherited one of the toughest economic environments in recent history. "This is the largest, most diverse generation in American history.  It is also a generation that is incredibly well educated – and yet in a really tough economic spot.“

"We are relentlessly optimistic,” Menendez said. Citing a recent PEW study she noted that “more than 8 in 10 say that we currently have enough money to lead the lives we want to live or expect to in the future. There is no other cohort of adults that say this.”  Listen to the full interview below – 

Alicia Menendez is the host of “AM Tonight” on Fusion, a network that champions a young, diverse and inclusive America. To find out if Fusion is available in your area visit: http://fus.in/GetFusion. To find out what channel visit: http://fus.in/channels.