Protected: The Oldie Regime

Liz Emerson | 21st January 2021 | Lobbying, Magazine, Policy & Think Tanks, Politics
Official Vice Presidential photo, 2013
Official Vice Presidential photo, 2013

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Joe Biden is the oldest American president ever at 78. Who says age is any barrier to success? Before his inauguration, the President Elect pledged, “I’m going to keep my commitment that the administration, both in the White House and outside in the Cabinet, is going to look like the country.” So far the President has filled a lot of cabinet posts based on ethnicity - along similar lines to Obama and Clinton, and appears to be doing much better than Trump on gender with a third of cabinet posts going to women. But he has failed on age: the Biden cabinet does not include young people. Boomers still in charge While Biden’s cabinet may be younger than Trump’s - with an average age of 59 compared to Trump’s 63 years - those average ages are a long way from representing the interests of the country’s largest generation, which is the Millennial generation with over 70 million members aged between 23 and 38 in 2019. The Boomer generation is therefore still very much in charge even though they...

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