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Strauss and Howe ascribe seven basic traits to the millennial cohort: special, sheltered, confident, team-oriented, conventional, pressured, and achieving. However, Arthur E. Levine, author of When Hope and Fear Collide: A Portrait of Today's College Student, dismissed these generational images as "stereotypes". [96]
Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe, who created the Strauss–Howe generational theory, coined the term 'millennial' in 1987. [15] [16] because the oldest members of this demographic cohort came of age at around the turn of the third millennium A.D. [17] They wrote about the cohort in their books Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069 (1991) [18] and Millennials Rising ...
The authors assert the millennial generation (which they also describe as a hero archetype, born 1982 to 2005) shows many similar traits to those of the G.I. youth, which they describe as including rising civic engagement, improving behavior, and collective confidence.
The internet felt decidedly different in the late ’90s and early ’00s. Illustration:Jianan Liu/HuffPost; Photo:Getty Images
The survey revealed that millennials, Gen X, and Gen Z all believe the “normal” retirement age is 67 to 68. Whether they’ll actually be able to retire at that age may be a different story ...
Another key sign that millennials are potentially doing better financially than boomers were at their age is their approach to estate planning and investment, said David Brillant, tax, trust and ...
How Old Are Baby Boomers? Those in the baby boomer generation were born between 1946 and 1964, making them 60 to 78 years old today. They got their name from being born during the post-World War ...
In 2018, there will be more millennials than boomers in the voting-age population. The problem, as you’ve already heard a million times, is that we don’t vote enough. Only 49 percent of Americans ages 18 to 35 turned out to vote in the last presidential election, compared to about 70 percent of boomers and Greatests.