Gen X likes to spend. Whether it's food, entertainment, health care, or housing, they aren’t holding back. Baby boomers aren’t shy either. They are right behind their younger counterparts. Gen ...

And baby boomers often have multiple generations worth of stuff, like filing cabinets full of their kids' report cards and their own parents' furniture and knickknacks.

But there are key differences between these two cohorts. The baby boomers blazed many new and fresh trails. They were a generation of “firsts” with a laundry list of accomplishments.

A growing number of Gen Z graduates are questioning whether college was even necessary: 68 percent believe they could perform their jobs without a degree, compared to just 49 percent of baby boomers.

But the survey ‘s respondent pool was composed primarily of baby boomers (52.4%), compared with smaller numbers of other cohorts like Generation X (27.2%), millennials (14.2%), the Silent ...

The majority of baby boomers — those born between 1946 and 1964 — believe younger generations simply aren't doing everything they can to afford a home.

Home Self 11 Values Boomers Swear By That Gen Z Is Quietly Bringing Back Do these two generations, seemingly endlessly pitted against each other, have more in common than they realize?

By the time baby boomers turned 40, 69% of this generation owned a home compared to 62% of millennials. In other words, homeownership levels haven’t fallen off too much, just the payment levels.

This unfortunate news is our new reality, as many of the benefits baby boomers enjoyed, like affordable housing or low-cost education, are likely gone forever. As a result, future generations are ...

Baby Boomers— that generation born between 1946 and 1964, according to Science Direct —seem particularly susceptible to conspiratorial thinking.

Baby boomers forged their own version of James Truslow Adams's concept of "a better, deeper, richer life," and millennials are interpreting the nation's core mythology in their own way.