Generation Jones

Would I be right in saying they are also called Generation Jones or generation X?

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She predicts the Cuspers, sometimes called Generation Jones, will continue to rise to power.

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In fact, there's so much gravity that savvy observers are starting to worry that my little cusp of a generation (what some have called Generation Jones, those late boomers or early-Xers born in 1954-1965), who've seen their retirement piggybacks lose more than half their value, "bail out of stocks for good.

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It is a disease that came to affect different kinds of people from Generation Jones in different fashions.

Will Bunch: Along Came "Jones": Why My Generation Isn't Saving the World 2010

This is simply not my Generation Jones -- a generation in which (for Americans, anyway) there was no war from the time I was 14, when the last regular troops came home from Vietnam, until Operation Desert Storm, when I was 32, and when economic woes brought "malaise" but not the Great Depression and then disappeared for a key time for young professionals in the 1980s and 1990s.

Will Bunch: Along Came "Jones": Why My Generation Isn't Saving the World 2010

The reality is that Generation Jones is showing up just in time, when the planet really does need saving -- and we are blowing it, big time.

Will Bunch: Along Came "Jones": Why My Generation Isn't Saving the World 2010

Jump ahead 30 years and right on schedule, Generation Jones is taking over.

Will Bunch: Along Came "Jones": Why My Generation Isn't Saving the World 2010

Jump ahead 30 years and right on schedule, Generation Jones is taking over.

Will Bunch: Along Came "Jones": Why My Generation Isn't Saving the World 2010

Generation Jones also dominates the profession that I and thousands of other young people pledged allegiance to in the heady days following Watergate and "All the President's Men," which is journalism.

Will Bunch: Along Came "Jones": Why My Generation Isn't Saving the World 2010

With the arrival of Generation Jones, pop culture went from the drug-addled chaos of Woodstock to the stage-managed perfection of Madonna -- who proudly sang that she was a "Material Girl" -- and Michael Jackson, who not only shunned any political role but moved toward a metaphorically appropriate neutrality even on racial appearance and gender.

Will Bunch: Along Came "Jones": Why My Generation Isn't Saving the World 2010