Nearly 40 million Americans are caring for older people, but new government data makes clear who is bearing the brunt: Gen X women. New figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) revealed that 14 percent of the U.S. population age 15 and older—some 38.2 million people—provided unpaid eldercare between 2023–24. Most unpaid caregiveers are women, and the people most likely to shoulder the burden were not retirees or empty nesters, but Gen Xers in their late 40s through early 60s. The BLS