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[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] Members of Generation Jones were children and teens during Watergate, the oil crisis, and stagflation.
A cusper is a person born near the end of one generation and the beginning of another. People born in these circumstances tend to have a mix of characteristics common to their adjacent generations, but do not closely resemble those born in the middle of their adjacent generations, and thus these cusper groups can be considered micro generations.
Each had written on generational topics: Strauss on Baby Boomers and the Vietnam War draft, and Howe on the G.I. Generation and federal entitlement programs. [19] Strauss co-wrote two books with Lawrence Baskir about how the Vietnam War affected the Baby Boomers: Chance and Circumstance: The Draft, the War, and the Vietnam Generation (1978) and ...
The Boomers, born in the wake of World War II with birth dates spanning roughly 1946 to 1962, were the largest population group in the This chart explains the biggest difference between Baby ...
Baby boomers and Gen X are reimagining retirement, according to a new study. Pre-retirees and retirees view their parents’ version of retirement as having been a time for “rest and relaxation ...
A 2020 study by sociologist Hui Zheng suggests that early US baby boomers (born between the late-1940s and early-1950s) and middle baby boomers (born between the mid- to late-1950s) had significant cognitive decline at age 50 and over compared to their elders, though the generations born before and during the Second World War had increasing ...
24/7 Wall Street Key Points. While 44% of Baby Boomers have saved over $250,000 for retirement, it is estimated that nearly 66% will have difficulty maintaining their current lifestyles in retirement.
Polling and analyses by Gallup, the Pew Research Center, and other sources have found that year of birth is an important predictor of political affiliation. [3] [4] [5] For example, Baby boomers born during the early-to-mid 1950s tend to be significantly more Democratic-leaning than those born earlier or later.