Driver's License Decline

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Recent studies have noticed a decline in young adults obtaining their driver's license. This decline is better known as a trend amongst millennials. That is to say, individuals who were born between 1983 and 2000. According to a study done by the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute, only sixty-nine percent of 19-year-olds had a driver's license in 2014 compared to the ninety percent in 1983. Subsequently, "the percentage of those in their 20's with driver's licenses had fallen by thirteen percent over the past three decades" (www.npr.org) and "fewer Americans in their 30s and 40s now have driver's licenses" (www.npr.org). Incidentally, licensing reduction has only recently been identified; as a result, a multitude of

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