Long before there was Michael Phelps, Carl Lewis was the hero of the Baby Boomer generation.
As the Baby Boomer generation ages, roughly 10, 000 Americans turn 65 every day and qualify for Medicare benefits.
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This deficit is set to increase as the baby boomer generation faces retirement.
That debt will experience exponential growth as the baby boomer generation adds 10, 000 retirees per day to the entitlement program roles.
But our baby boomer generation started out so liberal that we need the input of younger people to temper our natural inclinations.
The baby boomer generation is, as you know, here, and we're going to be using more of the Medicaid and Medicare services.
Boom time: A sharp increase in births after World War II created the baby boomer generation, born into an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity.
Every year for the next two decades, roughly 3 to 4 million seniors become newly eligible for Medicare as the baby boomer generation ages.
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The baby boomer generation of the press corps like Matthews came of age when race was a dominant and mostly sad issue in American politics and culture.
The prevalence of the disease has jumped 33% in the last decade and is expected to rise further as the baby boomer generation gets older and more overweight.
Those numbers are expected to jump as the baby boomer generation ages, overall life expectancy increases, and medical advances make it possible for more babies to survive premature birth.
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The baby boomer generation were fortunate to be the first to be born into the NHS. Now they are the generation that will test the capacity of the service to deal with a healthier population living longer lives.
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Although he called the large tax cut and requests for increased defense spending reminiscent of moves in the 1980s that led to major federal deficits, Conrad said it is more dangerous now as the baby boomer generation nears retirement.
The American dream is in peril from the confluence of sky rocketing deficits, high unemployment, and the ticking time bomb of an aging baby boomer generation, with its coincident increase in the burden of entitlements as a percentage of GDP.
Spiegel speculate that as the baby boomer generation ages, they are likely to shift from buying stocks to selling their equity holdings to finance retirement, and this shift could be a factor holding down equity valuations over the next two decades.
In an environment where assets (stocks and housing) have shrunk over the last decade and consumers in the U.S. and elsewhere are increasing their savings and reducing debt as retirement looms for an aging baby boomer generation, the current policies of stimulus make less and less sense.
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Meanwhile the baby-boomer generation has emerged into adulthood, boosting the share of working-age people.
Limiting government spending, and keeping the budget on a firm financial footing, is crucial as we approach the retirement years of the baby-boomer generation.
Conservative peer Lord Wei, who at 35 is the youngest member of the House of Lords, says he wants members of the baby-boomer generation involved.
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The US has about 60, 000 people over 100 and this is expected to quadruple as general life expectancy rises and the "baby boomer" generation arrives at extreme old age.
Pressures on the NHS could grow, he added, because the "baby boomer" generation now approaching retirement expected more from the health service than their parents, who were "incredibly stoic".
For only there has the cohort of baby-boomer supermums created a generation of men that want to be superdads that want (like their mothers) to have a go at having it all.
The changing needs of an aging baby boomer population as well as the demands of the burgeoning Echo Boomer generation will require that the real estate market respond in new and different ways.
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One other important consideration: Baby Boomer bosses (those born between 1946 and 1964) and Generation Y employees (those born between 1982 and 2004) are clashing.
Blumenthal says the band is looking for ways to reach a new generation of fans, but therein lies the challenge: The Grateful Dead are a Baby Boomer group whose last studio album was released in 1989.
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