a curious Yankee in Europe's court » baby boomers http://foreignremarks.com/passingcomments blog about living in Europe, and Italy Sat, 19 May 2012 13:58:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Millennials to the rescue? http://foreignremarks.com/passingcomments/archives/112 http://foreignremarks.com/passingcomments/archives/112#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 15:29:13 +0000 rebecca http://foreignremarks.com/passingcomments/?p=112 That this so-named, younger generation has the potential and some very good reasons to solve a lot of problems now ongoing in the U.S. is the possibility posed and discussed by Bob Herbert in his column today in the New York Times (“Here Come the Millennials” by Bob Herbert, May 13, 2008).

Which segment of the American population are they, precisely? As Herbert writes:

The number of young people in the millennial generation (loosely defined as those born in the 1980s and 90s) is somewhere between 80 million and 95 million.

Reading these stats piqued my curiosity about the size of that other humongous segment of Americans, the baby boomers. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, we amount to 78.2 million (as of July 2005).

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