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Chris Cioffi

Q&A: Boomers are in charge, and they still haven’t peaked

WASHINGTON — For Kevin Munger, generational conflict is no joke.

“Jokes about millennials and jokes about boomers are everywhere in pop culture,” says the political science professor at Penn State University. But the numbers don’t lie.

Baby boomers are the largest generation in American history. They still control the majority of wealth and both political parties, and their influence will only grow over the next five years, Munger says.

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