HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? Generation Vexed: Young Americans rein in their dreams: Amid so much economic uncertainty, many are rethinking career plans, putting off marriage and avoiding the stock market like the plague. “Fewer than half of Americans believe that the current generation will have a better life than the last, according to a Gallup poll this spring. It was the most pessimistic showing for that barometer in nearly three decades.”