Quotes by Today's Generation The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy. Alan Greenspan todays-generation generations numbers It has been difficult for [young people in the U.S.] to connect the dots between rising tuition costs and other assaults on their dignity with the ongoing assault on public life and its myriad democratic institutions. Today's generation faces an enormous battle in turning back the current assaults on the social state, higher education, and the social good. Henry Giroux todays-generation battle people