75 is the approximate number, in millions, of millennials that the United States will have this year. The total of millennials — those born from 1981 to 1997 — will reach 75.3 million, overtaking baby boomers (1946 to 1964) as the United States’ largest living generation.
How does a generation that has stopped enrolling members manage to keep growing? An influx of immigrants, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. And, of course, members of the boomer generation, currently at 74.9 million, are beginning to die in greater numbers.
The way the NY Times defines them, Millennials are today's 18-34 year olds. They're all old enough to register to vote, and those number will only go up next year. Meanwhile, in 2016 even the youngest Boomers will be 52, and the oldest, 70. As long as they are the group of Americans most likely to vote, we'll continue to be ruled by Boomer politicians (and yes, this includes Barack Obama, a young Boomer born in 1961.)
So there's a chance at least that our politics will begin to change. The question is at what rate?
Of course, that rate will be zero if Millennials sit home like they did in 2014.
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