Grand Young Party: Infographics on How the Politicians of Tomorrow Will Think

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With the oldest Baby Boomers hitting retirement age this year, a changing of the guard in America has officially begun. Next up are the Gen-Xers, of course, but many of them are already in power positions around the world. We're more interested in what comes after they of the 90s ennui and grunge: The Millenials.

In an effort to get ahead of the game, think tank the Brookings Institution put together D.C.'s New Guard, a report about the ideas and attitudes of Millenials, "the generational cohort born from roughly 1980 to 2005." Researchers interviewed 1,000 young people working in Washington, D.C. for a summer about their views on politics, the media, and the world.

Because while the Millenials' time is not now, it will be—perhaps sooner than many of them think.

photo (cc) via Flickr user Mickey van der Stap

Cord Jefferson
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Posted in: Culture,; News

Tags: politics,; culture,; america,; barack obama,; sarah palin,; slideshows,; surveys,; young people

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