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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787367203321

Autore

Editors The New Strategist

Titolo

The baby boom : Americans born 1946 to 1964 / / by the New Strategist editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amityville, : New Strategist Press, LLC, 2015

Amityville, New York : , : New Strategist Press, LLC, , [2015]

�2015

ISBN

1-940308-89-5

Edizione

[8th ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 419 pages) : illustrations

Collana

American Generations Series

Disciplina

305.2

Soggetti

Baby boom generation - United States

Baby boom generation - United States - Economic conditions

Consumers - United States

Consumer behavior - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter 1. Attitudes -- chapter 2. Education -- chapter 3. Health -- chapter 4. Housing -- chapter 5. Income -- chapter 6. Labor force -- chapter 7. Living arrangements -- chapter 8. Population -- chapter 9. Spending -- chapter 10. Time use -- chapter 11. Wealth.

Sommario/riassunto

After more than six decades of breaking the rules established by their elders, the Baby-Boom generation and older Americans are one and the same. In 2014, Boomers spanned the ages from 50 to 68, accounting for 24 percent of the total U.S. population and 71 percent of the population aged 50 or older. The eighth edition of The Baby Boom: Americans Born 1946 to 1964 includes in its pages, for the first time, a statistical profile of the U.S. population aged 50 or older-absorbing the New Strategist reference book Older Americans: A Changed Market into one volume. Boomers already dominate the older