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February 1998

Making it on their own: the baby-boom meets generation X

Geoffrey D. Paulin, Brian Riordon

In terms of various income and expenditure measures, young single adults in 1994-95, members of "Generation X," appear to be economically worse off than were their baby-boom counterparts in either 1972-73 or 1984-85

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