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Move over, Baby Boomers. The Millennials are rising.

This year, the group of 18- to 34-year olds will become the nation’s largest living generation. And everyone is taking notice, from professors and politicians to realtors and marketers.

In Pennsylvania, Millennials make up more than a fifth of the population.

The group has been deeply affected by loads of student debt and the lack of employment opportunities following the Great Recession. Some of the patterns used to characterize the generation, like delaying marriage and children, are likely a result of the economic times in which Millennials have entered adulthood.

This generation continues to prove itself to be unique from their parents and, just as they did with Boomers, the preferences of Millennials will change society.

PublicSource will continue to share insights about Millennials’ impact in Pennsylvania through stories that we will share with our readers, listeners and news partners.

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A growing number of Millennials shun religion

by PublicsourceDecember 12, 2015June 12, 2016

As of last year, more than a third of Millennials were considered to be religious “nones” — the unaffiliated, agnostic or atheist population. In 2007, only a quarter of Millennials said they lived outside of a particular faith, according to a 2014 Pew Research Center study.

In the United States, the religiously unaffiliated make up the second-largest group after Christians. Seventy-two percent of the religiously unaffiliated are younger than 50.

Some worry that this trend will mean Millennials and their children won’t have the same values or beliefs in right and wrong as previous generations.