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Journalist Sylvia F. Porter used the term "boom" in a column in the New York Post on the 4th of May, 1951, describing the postwar population surge. The specific phrase "baby boomer" first appeared in a January 1963 article in the Daily Press by Leslie J. Nason. The Oxford English Dictionary dates the modern meaning to a the 23rd of January 1970, article in The Washington Post.
The most widely accepted definition covers those born from 1946 to 1964, as used by institutions including the Pew Research Center, the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Some scholars use different ranges; William Strauss and Neil Howe defined the cohort as 1943 to 1960, while French politician Michele Delaunay placed the French boom between 1946 and 1973.
The Pew Research Center estimated 71.6 million baby boomers were living in the United States as of 2019, using U.S. Census data and the 1946-to-1964 definition. The leading-edge group, born 1946-1955, numbered roughly 38,002,000 people, while the trailing cohort, Generation Jones, born 1956-1964, numbered around 37,818,000.
Generation Jones refers to the trailing half of the baby boom, born roughly between 1956 and 1964, comprising about 37,818,000 people in the United States. Unlike leading-edge boomers who came of age during the Vietnam War and civil rights movements, Generation Jones entered adulthood during the Watergate scandal, the 1973 oil crisis, and the economic difficulties of the 1970s. Politically, early boomers in the U.S. have tended toward the Democratic Party while later boomers have leaned Republican.
American institutions of higher learning enrolled 2.6 million students in 1950, a number that rose to 8.6 million by 1970 and reached 12 million by 1980. Because so many baby boomers pursued higher education, tuition costs rose and the Silent Generation became the last cohort to benefit from tuition-free public universities anywhere in the United States. About a quarter of baby boomers ultimately earned at least a bachelor's degree.
The Red Army Faction (RAF) was a militant Marxist group in West Germany that was most active in the 1970s and 1980s, emerging from the student protest movements of the late 1960s. Its members believed the West German economic and political systems were inhumane and fascist; they looted stores, robbed banks, and kidnapped or assassinated businessmen, politicians, and judges. The RAF disbanded in 1998, having outlasted its American counterpart, the Weather Underground.