The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown
Written by Paul Taylor and Pew Research Center
Narrated by Sean Pratt
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America is in the throes of a demographic overhaul. Huge generation gaps have opened up in our political and social values, our economic well-being, our family structure, our racial and ethnic identity, our gender norms, our religious affiliation, and our technology use.
Today's Millennials-well-educated, tech savvy, underemployed twentysomethings-are at risk of becoming the first generation in American history to have a lower standard of living than their parents. Meantime, more than 10,000 Baby Boomers are retiring every single day, most of them not as well prepared financially as they'd hoped. This graying of our population has helped polarize our politics, put stresses on our social safety net, and presented our elected leaders with a daunting challenge: how to keep faith with the old without bankrupting the young and starving the future.
Every aspect of our demography is being fundamentally transformed. By mid-century, the population of the United States will be majority non-white and our median age will edge above 40-both unprecedented milestones. But other rapidly aging economic powers like China, Germany, and Japan will have populations that are much older. With our heavy immigration flows, the US is poised to remain relatively young. If we can get our spending priorities and generational equities in order, we can keep our economy second to none. But doing so means we have to rebalance the social compact that binds young and old. In tomorrow's world, yesterday's math will not add up.
Drawing on Pew Research Center's extensive archive of public opinion surveys and demographic data, The Next America is a rich portrait of where we are as a nation and where we're headed-toward a future marked by the most striking social, racial, and economic shifts the country has seen in a century.
Paul Taylor
Author Paul Taylor was born and raised on a gentleman’s farm in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Alabama. Paul has dedicated his life to understanding and communicating the complexities, interrelationships, politics, sciences, economics and global significance manifested in environmental matters. Mr. Taylor has authored two prior book: “Green Gone Wrong” and “Climate of Ecopolitics.” He has a B.S. degree in Biology/Chemistry and a Master of Science degree in Environmental Science from the Tulane University School of Public Health. Paul also has post-graduate environmental training from the University of Alabama Marine Sciences Institute, the University of Maryland, the University of California at Irvine, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Tulane University Law School. And, Paul has been a Registered Environmental Assessor in the State of California. Paul is instructor and curricula developer as faculty in Environmental Science Studies at two Los Angeles universities, and at three other colleges campuses in Southern California in recent years. Paul is founder and principal of Paul Taylor Consulting -- Environmental science and energy consultant to institutions, commercial, industrial and governments, with specialty in scientific environmental impact reports, air and water pollution, wetlands and wildlife resources, sustainable energy and land use. Environmental compliance strategist and court expert witness. Mr. Taylor has posted hundreds of influential “Opinion Comments” in The Wall Street Journal concerning environmental issues -- Ecopolitics. Paul was a weekly contributor as the “Los Angeles Ecopolitics Examiner” under contract to Clarion Media from 2009 to 2013. Over the years he has been published in the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle and The Washington Times.
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