Winter 2018
Welcome to the latest issue of Trend, from The Pew Charitable Trusts. Trend offers perspectives from eminent voices, in a range of disciplines, who are seeking to inform and improve our world.
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Whatever moniker sticks, what we already know about these young people is that they are the sixth generation currently making their way in the world, joining the millennials, the Gen Xers, the baby boomers, the silent generation, and those born before the Depression, the greatest generation.
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Thanks to increased life spans, there are at least six distinct generations living and working side by side in the United States today. Over time, they have earned names based on how they behave and the historical events that influenced them—and soon, it will be time to name the latest one.
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“Which generation am I in?” That’s one of the most frequent questions that I get, as a generations researcher—and the answer is not as straightforward as you might think.
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In the United States, many people have long believed that hard work and ambition determine economic success and that this country is exceptional at promoting opportunity from the bottom up. It is the essence of the American Dream—the idea that each subsequent generation will do better than the one that came before and that together a rising tide will lift all boats. But for many, the dream is fading. The Pew Research Center has found that just 37 percent of Americans believe children today will be financially better off than their parents, a lower share than in 21 other nations in a global survey.
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