Showing posts with label baby boom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baby boom. Show all posts
Monday, August 10, 2026

Boomers Cling to Wealth and Power

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Many posts have discussed demographic trends , especially the decline of births and the aging of the population . Bruce Mehlman : The fir...
Saturday, October 25, 2025

Boomers

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  Many posts have discussed  demographic trends , especially the  decline of births  and the  aging of the population . A 2018 campaign vide...
Sunday, April 10, 2022

Generations, Cold War Memories, and Russia

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Philip Bump at WP: I guess we're far enough along with this newsletter that I can make a confession: I am a member of Generation X.... ...
Saturday, January 19, 2019

Generation Z: Yea on Liberalism, Nay on American Exceptionalism

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Kim Parker, Nikki Graf And Ruth Igielnik at Pew : No longer the new kids on the block, Millennials have moved firmly into their 20s and 30...
Sunday, June 25, 2017

Aging America

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From the Census T he nation’s population has a distinctly older age profile than it did 16 years ago, according to new U.S. Census Bure...
Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Dying Whites

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A release from the University of New Hampshire: More whites died than were born in a record high 17 states in 2014 compared to just four i...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Boomers

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Olivia B. Waxman writes at Time : “I think the Boomers were raised in probably one of the most patriotic periods of the country,” says s...
Monday, June 29, 2015

Majority Minority

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The Census reports: Millennials , or America’s youth born between 1982 and 2000, now number 83.1 million and represent more than one quarte...
Monday, June 15, 2015

The Seniors Are All Right

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At The New York Times , Dionne Searcey and Robert Gebeloff find that seniors are doing okay, thanks to Social Security , traditional pensi...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Fading Whites

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Demographer William Frey writes at Politico about changing demographics: But in the longer run, demography seems inevitably tilted ...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

Party Identification by Age

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Many posts have discussed the effects of age and generation on voting .  Putting together daily tracking surveys from  January 2013 thr...
Saturday, May 10, 2014

Aging

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The Census reports: The nation's 65-and-older population is projected to reach 83.7 million in the year 2050, almost double in size f...
Friday, January 3, 2014

The Youngest Boomers Turn Fifty This Year

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Demographic  trends influence social welfare policy .The Wall Street Journal offers a graph on the US age distribution , which has great si...
Saturday, October 5, 2013

News and Generations

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At Poynter, Andy Kohut writes: News organizations have been confronting the problem of a shrinking audience for more than a decade, but ...
Saturday, August 11, 2012

History and the Ryan Choice

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Mitt Romney has chosen Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)  as his running mate.  This choice is historically significant in at least three respects. 1...
Thursday, June 7, 2012

Age and Politics

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At Next Avenue, Frederick Lynch writes : In 1967, Time named boomers its Person of the Year. But today, self-critical boomer pundits and...