Generation X Research Paper

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Generation X As previously shown many sources identify Generation X as anyone approximately born between 1965 and 1980. Much of the research out there differs in its end year for Generation X as seen above the range being as early as 1979 to as late as 1984. This generation has also been referred to as the Baby Bust Generation (Raphelson, 2014) because at the peak of the Baby Boomers (1957), 4.30 million babies were born in the United States. The year before this generation, in 1945, 2.86 million babies were born, and at the peak of the Baby Bust (Generation X) in 1973, the figure was only 3.14 million (Mankiw and Weil, 1989). This generation has been influenced by Music Television (MTV), AIDS and worldwide competition and are also used to