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The Woodstock pop festival (1969) was a defining moment for older Boomers; Generation Jones have few memories from before the Watergate scandal (1972–1974) and the cultural cynicism it begat. While in high school, members of Generation Jones had a distinct feeling of having just missed the real hippie era.
This group represents slightly more than half of the generation, or roughly 38,002,000 people. The other half of the generation, usually called "Generation Jones", but sometimes also called names like the "late boomers" or "trailing-edge baby boomers", was born between 1956 and 1964, and came of age after Vietnam and the Watergate scandal.
1960s-late 1990s By the mid-1950s, half of America had a television in the home. For decades starting with the earliest color models, televisions were designed as furniture, partly to make the TV ...
Generation Jones was sort-of seen as a compromise to moving early '60s births to Generation X. A sub-Generation was created to connect them to those born in the late '50s which they likely have things in common with. Either way Generation Jones is a sub-Generation and not a Generation of it's own.
A survey of more than 6,300 U.K. adults for Standard Life, part of the nation's largest long-term savings and retirement business, found that 14% of baby boomers and late Gen Xers have already ...
In fact, according to USA TODAY, “In their prime earning years, late boomers saw their retirement funds decline from roughly $31,000 in value at age 47 to $26,500 at age 51, on average.”
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 ...
That doesn’t mean there won’t be any money left for late boomers or Gen X, however. Payroll taxes will cover a great deal of the benefits required. But it does mean that the government will ...