Count heads and the prisons belong to Millennials. Measure who was most likely to be locked up at a given age and the law hit Gen X hardest, while an 18-year-old in 2023 went to prison at about an eighth of the 1993 rate. The difference is mostly the law, and the law keeps admitting it.
Trump Said the American Dream Was Dead. For Children Born the Year He Was, the Odds Were 86 Percent.
Children born in 1946 had an 86 percent chance of out-earning their parents. Children born in 1980 got a coin flip. The Federal Reserve’s 2025 family survey shows the age gap in wealth opening back up, and New Hampshire, the third-oldest state by median age, shows the split as clearly as anywhere.
