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Millennials' Money Tips for Gen Z

What's up, sunshine.

I'm Coy Wire this is CNN 10 happy Monday hope you had an awesome weekend.

 

I'm excited to start another week with you covering the news so we can stay informed on what's happening around the world all in 10 minutes time so let's set the tone let's set the tempo for the week dig on deep and summon that Monday motivation.

 

All right we begin today with an historic funeral on Saturday for Pope Francis who was laid to rest in Vatican City.

 

Thousands of people from around the world gathered in St peter's Square to witness the ceremony including current US President Donald Trump and former President Joe Biden, the presidents of France, the Philippines, India and Finland, as well as Prince William of Wales attended the funeral in place of his father King Charles of the United Kingdom.

 

Our ClarissaWard takes us through the day's solemn moments followed by many of the more than 1 billion Catholics worldwide and others.

 

solemn [ˋsɑləm] adj. 严肃的；庄重的

 

The Pope chose to be buried in a simple wooden coffin, a testament to the humble life Francis led. Papa Francesco.….(speaking Latin )

 

Despite his frailty and suffering towards the end. Pope Francis chose to follow this path of self-giving until the last day of his earthly life.

 

frailty [ˋfreltɪ] n. 脆弱，虚弱

 

Some remembered his words, others how he made them feel.

 

He was not afraid to speak and of according to me, in my opinion, um he was always ready to give a voice to the voiceless.

 

voiceless [ˋvɔɪslɪs] adj. 无声的；无言的；无发言权的

 

All now feel the weight of his absence, carried through the hallowed halls of St peter's Basilica pope Francis's coffin was prepared for its last journey, a historic one through the city he served and he left one final surprise.

 

His coffin transported not in ahearse but in his famous Pope mobile.

As the convoy crossed through Rome some 150,000 mourners lined the streets all hoping to catch a final glimpse of a pope they revered.

 

hearse [hɝs] n. 灵车

 

In another break from centuries of tradition his coffin was laid to rest in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore.

Awaiting him on the steps a group ofmarginalized invited specifically by the Pope to be among the last to say goodbye.

 

marginalized [ˋmɑrdʒɪnəlaɪzd] adj. 使局限于社会边缘；排斥；忽视；使脱离主流的(是指弱势社群因年龄、性别、种族、身体缺陷、社会身分和价值取向不同而遭排斥)

 

He was then buried in a private ceremony. His papacy is now over, but it has left behind a mark that will not fade.

 

papacy [ˋpepəsɪ] n. 教皇在任时间

 

In an unexpected moment just before the Pope's funeral President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zalinski met in the Vatican to discuss the war with Russia.

 

Ukraine released photos of the one-on-one encounter between the leaders, the first since a tense meeting at the White House in February and President Zalinskithanked President Trump for what he called afterwards a quote good meeting.

 

one-on-one 一对一（的）

 

The White House says the talks were productive.

President Trump followed that meeting with an unprecedented rebuke of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

 

rebuke [rɪˋbjuk] n. 指责，非难；训斥

 

Questioning Russia's attacks on civilians and posting on social media quote "It makes me think that maybe he doesn't want to stop the war he's just tapping me along and has to be dealt with differently through banking or secondary sanctions too many people are dying."

 

tap someone along: to deceive or mislead someone for a period of time, often by giving them false hope or leading them to believe something that isn't entirely true, without any real intention of following through

 

Pop quiz hotshot

 

The team huddle was invented in the early days of what popular sport?

 

Football Soccer Basketball or Volleyball.

 

Answer is football.

 

In 1894 a quarterback named Paul D Hubbard who played for the Gallaudet University football team, a university for the deaf in Washington DC, invented the huddle to prevent opposing teams from seeing his play calls in sign language.

 

The NFL draft concluded over the weekend finishing with the seventh round on Saturday.

257 college football players from across the nation saw their NFL dreams come true being selected to one of the 32 NFL rosters.

 

draft [dræft] n.【美】（职业运动的）选拔制度；选秀制度

roster [ˋrɑstɚ] n. 列入名册的人

 

Some of you know I played nine seasons in the NFL. As a team captain for the Buffalo Bills and Atlanta Falcons.

 

Well some of the TV shows here at CNN asked me to help viewers get an idea of what the emotional roller coaster is like during the NFL draft.

 

Check it out. NFLdraft day I was more nervous than a long-tail cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

 

I think that's the day I started losing all my hair.

 

You don't know when you're going to get drafted.

 

You don't know if you're going to get drafted.

 

And if you do get drafted you don't know what city you're going to be moving to.

 

But at the end of the day you don't care.

 

You just hope your NFL dreams come true.

 

The day I was drafted I was at home on my couch in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania with the people who helped me get there.

 

My mom my dad my brother my sister my family some of my closest friends trying to just eat some chips and dip pretend like everything was fine.

 

But my heart was beating out of my chest with every pick.

 

And you see some of these teams who told you they're considering drafting you, they pick other people and you start thinking "Oh man is this going to happen?"

 

And then it happened in the third round phone rings whole house gets silent my head starts spinning.

 

It was a friend calling saying "How you feeling?"

 

I said "I'll call you don't call me."

 

I hung up, my phone rings again.

 

97th pick in the 2002 draft it was the Buffalo Bills asking "How'd you like to move to Buffalo?"

 

I start crying like a baby uh then I see my name pop up on the ticker it was real.

 

ticker [tɪkɚ] n.（螢幕上用文字顯示新聞或股價的）滾動資訊區

 

What a better place to be drafted, playing for Buffalo in front of some of the best fans on the planet.

 

And I had never seen an NFL game in person until I stepped onto that field wearing a Bills helmet with that NFL logo dream come true.

 

One great goal in life is to simply aim to be a little better today than we were yesterday but that's not always easy right, especially when tough times hit.

 

Well one of the best ways to empower ourselves with knowledge and information to help us navigate tough times is to learn from those who've been through them before and that's exactly what we're seeing in a new Tik Tok trend.

 

The younger generation which researchers have named Generation Z are asking the generation that came before them millennials for some wisdom specifically about money.

 

When a country sees several months of high price tags on everyday items, jobs become harder to get and people start spending less we call that a recession.

 

And while economists are warning a recession is possible at some point in 2025. Millennials are telling teens "This ain't our first rodeo." and they're sharing some of their tried-and-true tips for making it through.

 

rodeo [ˋrodɪ͵o] n. 马术竞赛会；牧人套马表演会

tried-and-true 试过后证实为正确的;  经过验证的

 

Millennial here who graduated in 2009 during the Great Recession and I wanted to weigh in on this conversation.

 

weigh in 参加, 介入

 

I've been seeing going around on social media about how we survived this time of great poverty and stress in our lives.

 

go around 从一地或一人传到另一地或另一人

 

Millennials who were young adults during the Great Recession are sharing their wisdom on Tik Tok.

 

We don't panic during recessions we prepare for them.

 

As Gen Z anxiously prepares for a downturn that economists warn could be triggered by President Trump's trade war.

 

So I just started seeing videos after video after video of Gen Z just feeling downtrodden frustrated, very bleak and hopeless about the future when I was going through the Great Recession in 2008 I didn't feel as hopeless and bleak, I was looking at my peer group, the people around me and we were doing okay we were all struggling but we were in it together.

 

downtrodden [ˋdaʊn͵trɑdn] adj. 被践踏的；受压迫的

 

Number one take whatever job you can get on Tik Tok.

 

Sasha walked Gen Zthrough recession tips like living below your means and deleting layaway payment platforms, her biggest piece of advice, stop comparing yourself to others on social media.

 

mean [min] n. 平均数(收入)

layaway [ˋleə͵we] n.【主美】分期积累预付购货（法）

 

Because of social media I feel like Gen Z are living two vastly different experiences you see the Gen Z that are like struggling and broke and then you see the Gen Z who are on yachts and on planes you know, Coachella.

 

We're all in this together. The reality of the situation is the vast majority of us are struggling.

 

On a platform that encourages keeping up with the latest trends, many Tik Tokers are vowing to do one thing, lower their spending.

 

If you were an adult during the 2008 recession, can you tell me if my plan is good or not or ifI need to …

 

Iam trying my hardest to not spend a lot of money on everything. My mindset is I want to do it and build a practice of doing it before I have to do it out of basic necessity.

 

I'm basically choosing to go to local farmers markets and produce markets instead of a big box grocery store.

 

Ilimit all subscriptions if I can password share with my friends on Apps. let's just share and not pay double the cost.

 

If you don't got it you don't got it and that's okay spend money focus on the essentials, save as much as you can and really prioritize and make sure you are living a life that feels good to you not that looks good on social media.

 

Today's story getting a 10 out of 10

 

Apair of hero Tennessee teens Andy Goforth and Davon Hug were at the right place at the right time heading home from school when they smelled smoke and found a fire had started at a nearby retirement community.

 

We pulled over over here and I heard the people screaming and I didn't even think about it i kind of just jumped out and like ran upstairs .

 

My first thought is I remember my grandma lives in there i got to go get grandma.

 

The teens called 911 but it turns out the fire department was on another call in another town so it was going to take them longer to get to this fire.

 

Well that's when the teams split up each taking one floor of the building braving thick smoke they cleared out the residents still inside.

 

Two residents were treated for burns one for smoke inhalation but thanks to these teens quick brave actions everyone made it out of the building.

 

Huge shout out to Mr. Goforth and Mr. Hug. Well done.

 

And we have some more shoutouts today.

 

First let's head to Bellevue, Nebraska and give a big old shout out to Mr. Mercer and all the scouts at Lewis and Clark Middle School rise up.

 

And this shout out goes to Mr. Emery and all the Panthers at Asotin Junior and Senior High School in Asotin, Washington you had a CNN 10 red and black day we love the photo on social media and you all look really good in those ties.

 

Thank you for making us part of your day let's have another great one and I'll see you right back here tomorrow on

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