Pew Social & Demographic Trends » Teens and Youth

The Sandwich Generation

Kim Parker and Eileen Patten — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 05:00:44 +0000

Overview With an aging population and a generation of young adults struggling to achieve financial independence, the burdens and responsibilities of middle-aged Americans are increasing. Nearly half (47%) of adults in their 40s and 50s have a parent age 65 or older and are either raising a young child or financially supporting a grown child [...]

The Big Generation Gap at the Polls Is Echoed in Attitudes on Budget Tradeoffs

Kim Parker — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:58:32 +0000

Overview The record generation gap that played out at the voting booth in the last two presidential elections is echoed by large differences by age in attitudes about the tradeoff between reducing the federal deficit and preserving entitlements for older adults, according to a new nationwide Pew Research Center survey. Older adults by a lopsided [...]

Record Shares of Young Adults Have Finished Both High School and College

Richard Fry and Kim Parker — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 17:20:33 +0000

Overview Record shares of young adults are completing high school, going to college and finishing college, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of newly available census data. In 2012, for the first time ever, one-third of the nation’s 25- to 29-year-olds have completed at least a bachelor’s degree. These across-the-board increases have occurred despite [...]

Young, Underemployed and Optimistic

Pew Social Trends Staff — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:00:15 +0000

Young adults hit hard by the recession. A plurality of the public believes young adults, rather than middle-aged or older adults, are having the toughest time in today’s economy.

Latino Children in Poverty

D’Vera Cohn — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:31:26 +0000

A new report from the Pew Hispanic Center explores and analyzes the poverty rate for Hispanic children. Latino children now outnumber white children in poverty for the first time, according to census data cited in the report.

For Millennials, Parenthood Trumps Marriage

Wendy Wang and Paul Taylor — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:00:13 +0000

Today’s 18 to 29 year olds – members of the so-called Millennial Generation – see parenthood and marriage differently than today’s thirty-somethings (members of Generation X) did back when they were in their late teens and twenties, according to a new analysis of Pew Research Center survey findings. Unlike their older counterparts, Millennials value parenthood much more than marriage.

Millennials: Confident. Connected. Open to Change

Pew Social Trends Staff — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000

A new national survey focuses on American teens and twenty-somethings who are making the passage into adulthood at the start of a new millennium. These young people have begun to forge their generational personality: confident, self-expressive, liberal, upbeat and open to change.

Home for the Holidays… and Every Other Day

Wendy Wang and Rich Morin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Instead of traveling across country or across town for Thanksgiving this year, many grown sons and daughters will be coming to dinner from their old bedroom down the hall, which now doubles as their recession-era refuge.

A Portrait of Generation Next

Pew Social Trends Staff — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 05:00:00 +0000

The cohort of young adults who have grown up with personal computers, cell phones and the internet and are now taking their place in a world where the only constant is rapid change.