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Media coverage of Generation Jones typically has described it as a distinct generation, using Pontell's dates. [2] [3] Others see this as a subset of the Baby Boom Generation, primarily its second half. [4] [5] A third view is that Generation Jones is a cusp or micro-generation between the Boomers and Xers. [6]
But, Pontell's is more palatable to a media culture that has no interest in fundamentally challenging a 1946–64 Baby Boom and a 1965–80 Gen X. In fact, media can take or leave Pontell's argument that what he calls Generation Jones is its own generation — opting instead to consider "Generation Jones" just a new moniker for late Boomers.
The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S. E. Hinton published in 1967 by Viking Press.The book details the conflict between two rival gangs of White Americans divided by their socioeconomic status: the working-class "Greasers" and the upper-middle-class "Socs" (pronounced / ˈ s oʊ ʃ ɪ z / SOH-shiz—short for Socials).
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Baby Boomers. Baby boomers’ full retirement age is 66 or 67, depending on the year they were born. You can begin collecting Social Security benefits at age 62, but doing so will permanently ...
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late summer of 2006: July 22: “CIA WORKER SAYS MESSAGE ON TORTURE GOT HER FIRED.” Christine Axsmith, a computer security expert working for the C.I.A., said she had been fired for posting a message on a blog site on a top-secret computer network. Axsmith criticized waterboarding: “Waterboarding is torture, and torture is wrong.”
Uses of "baby boomers": 4903; Uses of "Generation Jones": 2 (once in 2000, once in 2008; even in the latter article, after the term had had years to sink in, the sole reference is: The political consultant Jonathan Pontell labels them "Generation Jones.". In other words, the author doesn't even use the term or say it's in common usage; he just ...