{"id":54182,"date":"2016-04-25T23:10:33","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T23:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/millennials_overtake_baby_boomers_as_americas_largest_generation\/"},"modified":"2016-04-25T23:10:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T23:10:33","slug":"millennials_overtake_baby_boomers_as_americas_largest_generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54182","title":{"rendered":"(Pew R Factset) Millennials overtake Baby Boomers as America\u2019s largest generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Millennials overtake Baby Boomers as America\u2019s largest generation <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nStQnrZrxO\">https:\/\/t.co\/nStQnrZrxO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bR5ep1Gwoo\">pic.twitter.com\/bR5ep1Gwoo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PewResearch FactTank (@FactTank) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FactTank\/status\/724675152252928003\">April 25, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Millennials have surpassed Baby Boomers as the nation\u2019s largest living generation, according to population estimates released this month by the U.S. Census Bureau. Millennials, whom we define as those ages 18-34 in 2015, now number 75.4 million, surpassing the 74.9 million Baby Boomers (ages 51-69). And Generation X (ages 35-50 in 2015) is projected to pass the Boomers in population by 2028.<\/p>\n<p>The Millennial generation continues to grow as young immigrants expand its ranks. Boomers \u201d\u201c whose generation was defined by the boom in U.S. births following World War II \u201d\u201c are older and their numbers shrinking as the number of deaths among them exceeds the number of older immigrants arriving in the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2016\/04\/25\/millennials-overtake-baby-boomers\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millennials overtake Baby Boomers as America\u2019s largest generation https:\/\/t.co\/nStQnrZrxO pic.twitter.com\/bR5ep1Gwoo &mdash; PewResearch FactTank (@FactTank) April 25, 2016 Millennials have surpassed Baby Boomers as the nation\u2019s largest living generation, according to population estimates released this month by the U.S. Census Bureau.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54182\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,209,133,136,109,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-history","category-middle-age","category-sociology","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}