The weak economy and the lack of jobs available for recent graduates is the biggest reason kids are moving back home, says Zhenchao Qian, professor and chair of the sociologydepartment at Ohio State University, who led a 2012 research study on the subject.
In a talk at Columbia University's sociologydepartment, renowned social scientist Donald MacKenzie gave some words of warning and advice about the financial markets.
Steering clear of Northwestern University's tweedy English department, he graduated in 1937 in anthropology and sociology and later went to work for the Encyclopedia Britannica.