In 2011, boomers were 15 times more likely to purchase new vehicles than young millennials (ages 18 to 24), and even consumers ages 75 and up have been buying cars at higher rates than groups ages 18 to 24 and 25 to 34.

more than 40 percent of all U.S. workers actually make less than what a full-time minimum wage worker made back in 1968.