American Households are Changing. So Should American News.

I grew up living in a house with my parents, brothers and grandparents. My grandparents taught me how to play poker, cook Matzoh balls and appreciate a long afternoon reading a newspaper (and then, perhaps, we’d spend the next few hours writing a well-thought-out letter to the editor).

I’m not alone. A record 60.6 million Americans — nearly one in five — now live in multigenerational households, according to research recently released by Pew. The number includes homes with two or more adult generations or ones with both grandparents and grandchildren.

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