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The biggest long-term story in the US economy is the generational divide between Baby Boomers and millennials. The Boomers, born in the wake of World War II with birth dates spanning roughly 1946 ...
Generation X (often shortened to Gen X) is the demographic cohort following the Baby Boomers and preceding Millennials.Researchers and popular media often use the mid-1960s as its starting birth years and the late 1970s as its ending birth years, with the generation generally defined as people born from 1965 to 1980.
They are currently the backbone of the American workforce, making up the largest portion at 38%, [13] especially as Gen X and boomers continue to age out of the workforce. 73 percent of millennials reporting working more than 40 hours a week and nearly a quarter work more than 50 hours a week.
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Gen X has a relatively small population compared to boomers and millennials and is generally known for being able to maintain a work-life balance. Millennials. Gen Y, better known as millennials ...
To tap into generational wisdom, I asked millennial, Gen X and baby boomer financial experts about their early 20s and how the economic landscape resembled or differed from today’s.
The word generate comes from the Latin generāre, meaning "to beget". [4] The word generation as a group or cohort in social science signifies the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time, most of whom are approximately the same age and have similar ideas, problems, and attitudes (e.g., Beat Generation and Lost Generation).
Dretsch said millennials -- also known as Gen Y -- are "a completely different generation than what we had seen before with Gen Xers and baby boomers in particular." "So millennials embraced the ...