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NEWS ABOUT: Generation X

Generation X stories: 15 news summaries
OPINION

 With Icons' Deaths, 
 Gen X Grows Up 

Pair of generation's icons pass in a day

Jun 26, 09 10:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson were icons to many, but especially to the impressionable members of Generation X. “These people were on our lunchboxes,” notes one post-boomer. “This is the moment when Generation X realizes they're grown up." “Cynical” and “disaffected,” Gen X... More »

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entertainment • celebrity • death • Generation X • Michael Jackson • icons • Farrah Fawcett

 Belt-Tightening Spares 
 Older Workers 

Increasingly, companies value maturity, experience of older employees

Jan 21, 09 8:06 AM CST
(Newser) - As companies nationwide cut tens of thousands of jobs, younger workers appear to be taking a hit as companies try to retain older, more experienced employees, reports BusinessWeek. Boomers increasingly have become corporate America’s gold standard: “When you’re in your 50s and 60s, you’re in your... More »

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baby boomer • unemployment • Generation X • Deere and Co • CVS • Walgreens • financial crisis

Obama Signals End of Boomers' DC Reign

But at 47 he's too old for Gen X; seen as more of a bridge

Jan 12, 09 9:14 AM CST
(Newser) - Baby boomers will lose Washington next week to a new, more pragmatic generation. But which one that is seems up for debate, reports the AP. At 47, Barack Obama is a tad too young for boomers—whose partisan politics are informed by civil-rights marches and sexual liberation—but too old... More »

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Barack Obama • baby boomer • age • Generation X • Generation Y • George W. Bush • President Obama • Generation Jones • Cusp Generation

OPINION

 Hey, Gen-Xers, 
 Housing Mess 
 Is Your Fault  

They borrowed too much to avoid fractured family of their youth

Dec 23, 08 5:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Stung by the divorces and TV dinners of their youth, Gen-Xers spent whatever it took to make a happy home for themselves and their kids—even when they couldn't afford it, writes Susan Gregory Thomas in Babble. OK, that may be "harsh and exaggerated," she notes. But from... More »

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divorce • yuppies • children • mortgage • housing • bank • Generation X • financial crisis • refinancing

OPINION

In Your Late 40s? You Are
the Dumbest Generation

President-Elect is smart, but his early-60s birth cohort isn't

Dec 6, 08 11:42 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama is a pretty smart guy, but his generation—the strange, in-between group born from the late 1950s to mid-1960s—is, quantitatively, the dumbest on record, writes Neil Howe of the Washington Post. Sometimes called “Generation Jones” or “early Xers,” this group nabbed the fewest... More »

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baby boomer • generation gap • Generation X

OPINION

Gen X to Boomers:
We Get It Now

With Obam's election, Gen X sees the political light

Nov 9, 08 5:09 AM CST
(Newser) - Sorry, boomers, for taking so long to drop the cynicism and eye-rolling, writes Heather Havrilesky in Salon. But to those who "became rational adults at the exact moment a reckless frat boy boomer became president," your generation's idealism and tales of '60s radicalism fell flat, she spills. Barack... More »

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Barack Obama • baby boomer • Generation X • salon • Barack Obama supporters • Election 2008

OPINION

Age Is Just a Number; for Guys, It's 31

If it's really all in your head, show your head your birth certificate

Aug 5, 08 4:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - Most men have two ages, theorizes author Douglas Coupland of Generation X fame: "the age we really are, and the age we are in our heads," which he pegs at "about 31 or 32." Coupland explains in in Best Life magazine: "When middle-aged men look... More »

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age • aging • psychology • Generation X • middle age • Douglas Coupland

 Why Gen Xers
 Hate Corporate Jobs 

10 reasons you won't find Xers in an executive suite

May 21, 08 9:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Generation Xers don't seem to be clambering to the top of the corporate ladder in the numbers they should be—and many are turned off by corporate life altogether. BusinessWeek has 10 reasons why this might be so:
  1. Xers started their careers just as the economy went into its
... More »

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baby boomer • corporate culture • generation gap • Generation X • Generation Y • management

Smells Like
Teen Nostalgia

As baby boomer baubles grow less desirable, collectors turn to Nirvana, G N' R

May 8, 08 3:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Grunge is passé, but the market for its collectibles isn’t, reports Portfolio. Nostalgia plays a big role in determining what's hot, and prices on items of baby boomer vintage, even from the likes of the Fab Four, are starting to drop. Meanwhile, the demand for Gen X artifacts—... More »

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Christie's • Jimi Hendrix • auction • Nirvana • guitar • memorabilia • Generation X • Eric Clapton

new release

Author Just Talking 'Bout
X Generation

'Ignored' demographic keeps 'everything from sucking,' book argues

Apr 18, 08 1:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Between the stuck-in-the-'60s boomers and their blog-happy offspring is a mighty yet forgotten generation, Jeff Gordinier writes in his new book, X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft But Can Still Keep Everything From Sucking. From less Dylan to more Cobain, the author wants the "dark-horse... More »

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baby boomer • generation gap • Generation X • Generation Y • millennials

 Boomers Move Back Home 

Shaky economy has more children living with their parents—even at age 50

Mar 24, 08 3:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Young people have long fled recessionary job markets by moving back home, but the current crisis has a new demographic scurrying there: the middle-aged. "This is not like, 'OK, my son just graduated from college and needs to move back in' type of thing," says one financial planner,... More »

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baby boomer • parents • housing • recession • unemployment • US economy • Generation X • subprime crisis

No Booze for You, Baby

Bars are banning
Gen-X parents who bring kids, sparking angry debate

Feb 12, 08 7:07 PM CST
(Newser) - A mellow Brooklyn watering hole has recently banned an unlikely irritant: babies. Gen-X parents in New York, Philly, and DC are rolling their strollers into bars, the New York Times reports, and response has been vocal, with thirsty young moms and their childless counterparts waging a spirited Web war... More »

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New York City • baby • smoking ban • Generation X • new parents • bars • strollers

Gen Xers Aren't Saving
for Retirement

Too many still living paycheck
to paycheck, one expert warns

Nov 10, 07 7:42 AM CST
(Newser) - Aging Gen Xers are too saddled with costs and debt to save for retirement, MSNBC reports. In fact, 62% of Gen Xers—those born roughly from 1965 to 1980—said they still live paycheck to paycheck, according to a Charles Schwab survey. And they’re headed for trouble: The fund... More »

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education • retirement • mortgage • debt • Generation X • Social Security • savings

Aging Brain, Not Racism, Explains Elderly Gaffes

Older people
unable to inhibit stereotypical thoughts

Sep 26, 07 2:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Grandma’s verbal faux pas might signal not that she’s more prejudiced than younger relatives, but rather that she’s unable to disguise or overcome stereotypes, a study shows. Anecdotal evidence suggests, and earlier studies confirmed, that older Americans are more racist, but new research shows age-related brain shrinkage... More »

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baby boomer • elderly • racism • Generation X • frontal lobe

Quirk Is the
New Kitsch
(Sigh)

Atlantic writer traces the devolution of idiosyncrasy into idiocy

Aug 16, 07 5:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Quirk is the “ruling sensibility” of today’s culture—random narrative, “mannered ingenuousness”—and it’s become exhausting, writes the Atlantic's Michael Hirschorn. “This American Life” has been the standard-bearer, but the quirk it purveys hasn't held up well in expanding from radio to TV. More »

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This American Life • culture • Wes Anderson • Arrested Development • Talking Heads • sentimentality • Generation X

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