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Millennials, also known as Generation Y or Gen Y, are the demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z.Researchers and popular media use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years, with the generation typically being defined as people born from 1981 to 1996.
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 unemployment rate peaked at 10% in 2009, leaving many millennials hopping around the job market, ending up in jobs they didn’t want or with a gap on their résumé as they waited to find the ...
[16] Zillennials are those born on the cusp of, or near the end of the Millennial generation and the beginning of Generation Z. [1] The exact date range of this micro-generation is not specifically defined. Avery Hartmans, writing for Business Insider citing a study on U.S. consumers, defines a Zillennial as anyone born between 1990 and 2000.
Millennials are more likely than Gen Xers and baby boomers to have a college degree, and, despite the stereotype, they're wealthier than prior generations were at the same age. Life expectancies ...
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 ...
In 1980, 4 out of 5 employees got health insurance through their jobs. Now, just over half of them do. Millennials can stay on our parents’ plans until we turn 26. But the cohort right afterward, 26- to 34-year-olds, has the highest uninsured rate in the country and millennials—alarmingly—have more collective medical debt than the boomers.
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