Congress is experiencing a youth movement, sort of. The Millennial Action Project told Secrets that there is a 40% increase in millennial and Generation Z members in the new Congress.
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Millennial wave of candidates in midterm elections could lower average state legislature age to 56
Around 700 state legislature candidates running in the 2018 midterm elections, the majority of them Democrats, are millennials. If most of these candidates were to win their respective contests among the 6,000 state legislative races across 46 states, the average age of legislatures were be lowered to 56.