I turned 30 this year, which makes me still the youngest member of the Colorado General Assembly. But I am one of the elders of the generation known as Millennials — those born between 1980 and 2000.

Millennials are a powerful demographic. We are the largest generation in the history of the United States. We will include more than a third of adult Americans by 2020, and we will make up as much as three-quarters of the U.S. workforce by 2025.

We account for more than $1 trillion in U.S. consumer spending, and we want to support companies who take social responsibility seriously. Nearly 9 in 10 of us say we are more likely to buy from companies that support solutions to specific social issues. But we are also wary of the current corporatization of America: 83 percent of Millennials agree that too much power is concentrated in the hands of a few big companies, and it’s leading to an unprecedented crisis of income inequality.

As a generation that came of age during the Great Recession, Millennials are sensitive to the struggles people face when they can’t find good jobs. That’s why fairness in economic opportunity is so important to us. We don’t ask for a handout, but we appreciate it when those of us in government do our best to hold the ladder steady while we climb toward economic security.

Two-thirds of Coloradans, and even greater percentages of young voters, support raising the minimum wage. We know it’s not fair for someone who works 40 hours a week to still live in poverty and barely be able to afford basic necessities in life like food, housing, healthcare and education.

Higher education has always been seen as the pathway to a brighter future and middle-class security. Unfortunately, young people are being priced out of that dream. Millennials can’t keep up with the rising costs of attending public or private colleges and universities. As a result, we are drowning in student loan debt. It’s why we find it so frustrating when legislation to cap student loan interest rates or cap college tuition increases falls victim to partisan politics. We can and should do better.

Millennials have turned away from the prejudices that some of our elders still cling to. We strongly support civil rights, including marriage equality for LGBT Coloradans. We recognize that our society is strongest when we encourage diversity and accept others for who they are. We embrace America as it is, not as those elders wish it were or remember it to have been decades ago.

Millennials will live to see the decline of an economy based on finite fossil fuels, and pushing tough decisions off for another generation is no longer acceptable. Every time I see another young Coloradan using a bike or public transportation to get to work or school I am reminded that we Millennials aren’t sitting on our hands waiting passively for the future to come — we’re making it happen now.

Because we’re concerned about degradation of our air and water quality, we’re also committed to renewable energy standards like the ones we have in Colorado. It will take creative thinking to find solutions to securing our energy future, so it’s a good thing Millennials are no strangers to innovation.

Our entrepreneurial spirit has led us to embrace technology like no other generation before us. We live our lives online through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Snapchat. Our love of/addiction to technology and interconnection has resulted in new and easier ways to do just about everything.

Millennials have already made some outstanding contributions to society. I’m excited to see what we will continue discover, develop and pioneer in the future. We’ll make sure to post, blog and tweet about it, of course.

State Rep. Dominick Moreno, a Democrat, is the assistant majority leader of the Colorado House of Representatives. He represents House District 32 in Commerce City.