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Boomers and Millennials: Who's Got It Worse in the Workplace?

Measuring the pain for two different generations
Boomers and Millennials: Who's Got It Worse in the Workplace?
Photograph by Image Source/Corbis

It’s the fight of a generation. In this corner, weighing in at 42.5 million people, with a 12.3 percent unemployment rate and $294 billion of combined student loan debt, wearing skinny jeans and headphones: 20 to 29-year-olds. And in this corner, tipping the scale at 36.9 million people, with an unemployment rate of 6.6 percent and a median household networth of $162,000, wearing Crocs and a pair of bifocals: 55 to 64-year-olds.

Lets get ready to rumble.