In fact, millennials earn about 20 % less in today's dollars as Baby
Boomers did at their age, despite being more educated.
Not exact matches
He says that many
boomers — facing longer live expectancies — feel they don't have enough savings to retire
at age 65.
Baby
boomers have most of the wealth and the housing, so «millennials are
doing less well than their parents
at the same
age.»
Home prices have increased 250 % since 1980 and Millennials under 25 are spending 7.7 % more of their wallet on housing than the
Boomer generation
did at that
age.3 As a result, the number of non-married people under 35 sharing a home or apartment has grown.
Baby
boomers in their 50s and 60s are carrying much more mortgage debt than their parents
did at their
age.
The church attendance drop
does appear to be genuine, but small, when you compare rates
at same
age, but the prayer difference seems to be just an
age issue: «Although Millennials report praying less often than their elders
do today, the GSS shows that Millennials are in sync with Generation X and Baby
Boomers when members of those generations were younger.»
Even as a whole though, the millennial generation (defined here as those born between 1980 — 2000) have fewer sexual partners than the last two generations (
Boomers and Xers)
did at their
age.
Don't forget that regular weight training has many health benefits which you may not appreciate yet
at your
age such as lowering of blood fats, prevention of osteoporosis, etc... There is plenty of baby
boomers out there who just started training five years ago who have much better physiques than 20 year old genetically gifted individuals who have sedentary lifestyles.
The Population is Getting Older: All you have to
do is look
at the statistics and see that the Baby
Boomer generation is reaching retirement
age.
An article in the Oct. 25, 2006, issue of Education Week on charter schools in the District of Columbia («
At Age 10,
Booming D.C. Charters Feel «Growing Pains»») should have said that 118 out of 146 regular public schools in the city
did not make adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act for last school year.
I'd even make the case that the
boomers generally married and started forming families roughly 10 years later than their parents
did; say on average
at age 29 instead of 19.
The
aging baby
boomer generation doesn't want to mow the lawn anymore or keep up with home improvement projects, says Kimberly O'Neil Mara, sales agent
at Century 21 Spindler & O'Neil Associates in North Reading, Massachusetts.
I'd love to see something like what
BOOM Studios has
done recently with its Darkwing Duck revival: appropriate for all
ages, but really aimed
at today's twenty - and thirty - somethings who grew up with the characters.
With over 10,000 baby
boomers retiring
at age 65 daily, many look for the opportunity in a second career that allows them to scale back the amount of time they're spending in an otherwise satisfying job,
do exciting new work or supplement their finances.
According to the 2015 Del Webb Baby
Boomer Survey, not only
do 80 percent of respondents rank having self - confidence as «very important,» but 76 percent are more empowered now than they were
at age 35.