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Defining a generation is difficult, for sure. To start with, Cohen must pick an age cohort to write about. He chooses the more than 40 million individuals between the ages of 18 and 29, without explaining why he chooses these ages as his parameters. Next, he admits (probably accurately), in his introduction, "there is no single word or idea that can accurately capture 40 million individuals...
...baby boomers' parents, those members of the World War II cohort now in the twilight of their lives, are the wealthiest generation in American history. Blessed by the real estate boom of the 1970s and '80s, the stock- market surge of the '80s and lucrative pensions, Social Security payments and a high savings rate, older Americans as a group have amassed a nest egg that New York University economist Edward Wolff values at $5.3 trillion -- an average of $258,000 for each household headed by a person over 64. Those assets mean an unprecedented windfall for many otherwise struggling younger...
...worst occurs, countless millions will become environmental refugees, swamping the nations that tried to conserve their soil, water and forests. The great-grandchildren of today's young people would have to share the planet with only a ragged cohort of adaptable species dominated by rats, cockroaches, weeds, microbes. The world in which they survived would consist largely of deserts, patches of tropical forests, eroded mountains, dead coral reefs and barren oceans, all buffeted by extremes of weather...
...higher education is reaching out tothat smaller cohort of students that are going tocollege and talented and desirable," Banks says...
Fromholz shares her cohort's optimistic outlook...