young adult

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Erin Moriarity started saving and investing in her teens, and was “aggressively chasing FIRE” as a young adult “through very traditional behaviors: working, budgeting, and saving and investing,” she told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 14, 2026

Instead, it shows that traditional campus structures are falling behind digital alternatives in the face of the social anxiety of the 21st-century young adult.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

We Need Diverse Books, a viral 2014 Twitter campaign turned nonprofit, is being honored with the Innovator’s Award for its efforts toward promoting diversity and inclusion in children’s and young adult publishing.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

As a young adult, Fern enjoyed what appeared to be a happy marriage to Charles “Handsome Charlie” Eldredge, a doting bank cashier, before tragedy struck, and struck again.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026

Now as a young adult I’ve realized that love is more important than material things.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers