The phrase "a generation at risk" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a group of people, typically young individuals, who are facing significant challenges or threats to their well-being or future.
Example: "The report highlights the alarming statistics that indicate a generation at risk due to rising mental health issues and economic instability."
Alternatives: "a vulnerable generation" or "a threatened generation".
About $180,000 from nearly 3,100 members has come back so far in seed money for "A Cry for Help: A Generation at Risk?" The documentary is expected to be broadcast this year.
"As much as two-thirds of the young population is under-utilised in some developing economies, meaning they are unemployed, in irregular employment – most likely in the informal sector – or neither in the labour force nor in education or training," says the ILO report Global Employment Trends for Youth 2013 – A Generation at Risk.
And while it's encouraging to see the signs of progress in both nutrition and protection, if we fail to sustain it, we leave a generation at risk".
In a forthcoming book, "Tell Your Children," Alex Berenson, a former Times reporter, argues that legalization is putting a generation at higher risk of schizophrenia and other psychotic syndromes.
Anything short of an outright ban puts an entire generation at risk of nicotine addiction.
BEIRUT, 15 March 2014 – As the crisis in Syria reaches the end of another year of brutal violence today, five of the world's leading aid organizations say that the three-year old conflict has devastated the lives of millions of children and young people – and a generation is at risk of being lost forever.
Three years of Syria conflict have devastated lives of millions of children BEIRUT, 15 March 2014 – As the crisis in Syria reaches the end of another year of brutal violence today, five of the world's leading aid organizations say that the three-year old conflict has devastated the lives of millions of children and young people – and a generation is at risk of being lost forever.
The change is evidence of shifting policy priorities that are putting the next generation at risk at a time when competition in the labor market has never been tougher, said Andrew Sum, an economics professor at Northeastern and the director of the center.
Although a valid concern for the current CVD population, only a few years separates the technologically literate generation from becoming the generation at risk of CVD.
We are the generation at risk of being "left behind", with both genders battling to find some kind of stability amid a housing crisis, unstable working conditions, mounting student debt, and, on top of all that, for women, that infernal biological clock and, if you have children, attendant childcare responsibilities and the unfair division of domestic labour.
As a joint press conference held by executives from some of the world's largest aid agencies Mercy Corps, UNHCR, UNICEF, Save the Children, and World Vision International clearly declared on March 15, the third anniversary of the Syrian uprising, an entire generation of children are "at risk of being lost forever" due to the conflict.
