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The America of the longer term will look nothing like the America of the recent times. America is in the throes of an demographic overhaul. Huge generation gaps have opened up in our politics and social beliefs, our economical well-being, us structure, our racial and cultural personality, our gender norms, our religious affiliation, and our technology use. Today's Millennials - well-educated, tech savvy, underemployed twentysomethings - are in risk of becoming the first generation in American background to have a lower standard of living than their parents. Meantime, more than 10,000 SENIORS are retiring each day, most of them not as well prepared fiscally as they'd hoped. This graying of our own population has helped polarize our politics, put stresses on our communal safety net, and provided our elected leaders with a difficult problem: how to keep faith with the old without bankrupting the young and starving the near future. Every aspect of our own demography is being fundamentally transformed. By mid-century, the population of the United States will be bulk non-white and our median years will edge above 40 - both unprecedented milestones. But other swiftly aging economic power, like China, Germany, and Japan, will have populations that are much older. With our heavy immigration flows, the united states is poised to stay relatively young. If we can get our spending priorities and generational equities to be able, we can keep our economy second to none. But doing so means we have to rebalance the communal small that binds young and old. In tomorrow's world, yesterday's math won't add up. Attracting on Pew Research Center's considerable archive of general population opinion studies and demographic data, The Next America is a abundant family portrait of where were as a land and where we're going - toward another marked by the most impressive communal, racial, and economical shifts the united states has seen in a century.
