Paul Taylor: Generational Expert

    Paul Taylor

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    • Travels from: Baltimore, MD
    • **Fee range: $10,001 - $20,000

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    The America of the near future will look nothing like the America of the recent past. America is in the throes of a demographic overhaul.

    Huge generation gaps have opened up in our political and social values, our economic well-being, our family structure, our racial and ethnic identity, our gender norms, our religious affiliation, and our technology use.

    Today’s Millennials—well-educated, tech savvy, underemployed twenty-somethings—are at risk of becoming the first generation in American history to have a lower standard of living than their parents.

    The changing of our population has helped polarize our politics, put stresses on our social safety net, and presented our elected leaders with a daunting challenge.

    Drawing on Pew Research Center’s extensive archive of public opinion surveys and demographic data, Paul Taylor illustrates a rich portrait of where we are as a nation and where we’re headed—toward a future marked by the most striking social, racial, and economic shifts the country has seen in a century.

    Author, The Next America: Boomers, Millennials and the Looming Generational Showdown

    • Paul Taylor is a former Executive VP of Pew Research Center
    • At the Washington Post, covered three US presidential campaigns and was South Africa bureau chief 
    • Uses demographic trend data to show how America is aging and growing more racially diverse 
    • Presents social, economic, political and technological portraits of the Millennial and Boomer generations

    Author, The Next America

    • Former EVP of Pew Research Center and Washington Port reporter
    • Presents data on whites, blacks, Hispanics, Asian-Americans, mixed race, LGBT
    • Uses animated infographics and video clips 
    • Covered race relations in US as well as South Africa’s transition to democracy 

    Author, The Next America: Boomers, Millennials and the Looming Generational Showdown

    • Uses animated infographics to show future trends in aging, racial diversity, economic well-being
    • Compares demographic trends in US with those in Asia, Europe, and the developing world 
    • Shows impact of immigration on future US economy, racial makeup

    Author, The Next America 

    • Covered three US presidential campaigns as Washington Post politics reporter
    • Conducted extensive political surveys  as EVP of Pew Research Center
    • Describes demographic roots of America’s growing political polarization 
    • Uses animated infographics to analyze identity group voting trends 

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