They’re bogged down by student loans and rising rents. They’re ditching wedding registries and tiered cakes. They’re running for president.
Welcome to the wide-ranging, complicated world of the generation born between 1981 and 1996: millennials.
All told, this cohort has changed the makeup of America. Millennials have made the country more racially and ethnically diverse, compared with members of Generation X (born between 1965 and 1980), baby boomers (1946 and 1964), the Silent Generation (1928 and 1945), and the Greatest Generation (pre-1928).
