The next America : boomers, millennials, and the looming generational showdown / Paul Taylor.
Taylor, Paul, 1949-
2014
HN59 .T39 2014 (Mapit)
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Title The next America : boomers, millennials, and the looming generational showdown / Paul Taylor.
Author Taylor, Paul, 1949-
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9781610393508 (hardcover)
1610393503 (hardcover)
9781610393515 (electronic)
Published New York : PublicAffairs, [2014]
Copyright ©2014
Language English
Description viii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number HN59 .T39 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.20973
Summary The America of the near future will look nothing like the America of the recent past. America is in the throes of a demographic overhaul. Huge generation gaps have opened up in our political and social values, our economic well-being, our family structure, our racial and ethnic identity, our gender norms, our religious affiliation, and our technology use. Today's Millennials -- well-educated, tech savvy, underemployed twenty-somethings -- are at risk of becoming the first generation in American history to have a lower standard of living than their parents. Meantime, more than 10,000 Baby Boomers are retiring every single day, most of them not as well prepared financially as they'd hoped. This graying of our population has helped polarize our politics, put stresses on our social safety net, and presented our elected leaders with a daunting challenge: How to keep faith with the old without bankrupting the young and starving the future.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction
Millennials and boomers
Generation gaps
Battle of the ages?
Money troubles
The new immigrants
Hapa nation
Whither marriage?
Nones on the rise
Living digital
Getting old
Empty cradle, gray world
The reckoning.

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