The America of the near future will look nothing like the America of the recent past.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.

Product Description: Opting Out explores the theme of deviance as a form of protest in famous cult novels that have left an indelible mark on contemporary American culture - from Jack Kerouac's On the Road to Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. Adopting a generational lens, it centers on the deviant heroes and literary spokesmen of two major cohorts: the Baby Boomers and Generation X...read more

Product Description: `The Baby Boom generation did much to drive the transformation of American higher education that occurred in the 1960s. That extraordinary impact has invited many to think about how succeeding generations have challenged and will continue to challenge the assumptions and practices of educational institutions...read more

Product Description: Book by Howe, Neil

Drawn from in-depth studies and research, a valuable resource to comprehending and managing age-related conflicts between co-workers reveals how to quell problems between Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Generation Xers, and Millennials, showing how to effectively recruit, retain, and motivate each type. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Profiles the four distinct generations in the modern workplace and offers advice for managing effectively in an age-diverse workplace (view table of contents)

Explores the challenges of meeting the needs of three generations in an aging population (view table of contents)

A collection of commentary, quotations, computer dumps, and cartoons pays tribute to America's post-baby-boom generation and details this group's growing influence on American culture. Original. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Examines today's middle-class society to reveal the social and psychological factors undermining the American Dream

Offers parents practical advice on giving their teenagers responsibility, reinforcing good behavior, and standing up for parental rights

Product Description: Book by Cottle, Thomas J.

Focuses on the middle-class elite of Europe and the generational consciousness that united them in a time when the nineteenth-century world of reason was rapidly disintegrating

Product Description: Book by Gage, Joy P.

Explores the changes that occurred as young people of the 1920s broke with nineteenth-century traditions, and assesses the impact of those changes on American life, then and now