Seniors Getting More Affluent, Young Families Less

A major new Pew Research Center report, The Rising Age Gap in Economic Well Being, compares trends in U.S. income and wealth by age over the last thirty years. Conclusion: Americans over age 65 are doing better and young families under age 35 are doing worse by almost any measure—wealth, income, homeownership, employment, and poverty rates. (See: “Incom…