{"id":2161,"date":"2026-02-23T06:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boomersbrokeamerica.com\/boomers-own-51-percent-us-wealth\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T06:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:32:14","slug":"boomers-own-51-percent-us-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boomersbrokeamerica.com\/ro\/boomers-own-51-percent-us-wealth\/","title":{"rendered":"Boomers Own 51% of America’s Wealth. Here’s How They Got It \u2014 and How They’re Keeping It."},"content":{"rendered":"

Baby Boomers own 51.4% of all wealth in the United States<\/strong> \u2014 $85 trillion in real estate, stocks, retirement accounts, and cash \u2014 while Millennials, now the largest generation in the workforce, own just 9%. This isn’t the natural result of Boomers being older and having had more time to save. It’s the outcome of a half-century of policies, market conditions, and political decisions that systematically built wealth for one generation and systematically dismantled the conditions that would have allowed the next one to do the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n