Generation X : Americans born 1965 to 1976 /

The four volumes in this set provide quick, easy access to the latest demographic and lifestyle data about four generations. The volumes are arranged in the same basic format, making it easy to use them together. Offering tabular data and graphs, text to present and analyze the data, and highlights, each volume's nine chapters provide current data and analysis of that generation's education, health, housing, income, labor force, living arrangements, population, spending, and wealth. Each also includes a glossary and bibliography, and lists Internet addresses, subject specialists, and phone numbers. The Millennials is a demographic and socioeconomic profile of the youngest generation from two perspectives: as individuals establishing households and careers and as children living with parents. Some tables report how often families ate breakfast and dinner together in a typical week; others, television rules for children. Its first chapter, "Children and Their Families," replaces the chapter on wealth. Generation X is concerned with people in their late twenties and thirties, well educated and upwardly mobile, who account for a growing share of households with annual incomes of $100,000 or more and who are a powerful force in the marketplace. The segment that preceded Generation X is described in The Baby Boom, a statistical portrait and analysis of the nation's largest generation. Its oldest members face retirement in a few years, and some wonder whether they will be able to afford to do so. The oldest generation (Older Americans) seem most concerned about two issues: health care and work versus retirement. As they approach their sixties, many who had considered early retirement will have to keep working until they reach 65 years of age. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. General readers and students, undergraduate and graduate. J. C. Phillips University of Toledo