The Baby Boomer retirement planning wreckage which daily is becoming more apparent could have been avoided.
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Long before there was Michael Phelps, Carl Lewis was the hero of the Baby Boomer generation.
As the Baby Boomer demographic hump inexorably inched its way toward retirement their savings rate steadily fell.
As the Baby Boomer generation ages, roughly 10, 000 Americans turn 65 every day and qualify for Medicare benefits.
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If you can offer an effective exit plan for the baby boomer, you help your employee and your company.
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If nothing else, the 2008 presidential primaries have hurt the baby boomer brand.
This deficit is set to increase as the baby boomer generation faces retirement.
On top of this lies the problem of an aging population, exacerbated by the size of the baby boomer demographic.
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That debt will experience exponential growth as the baby boomer generation adds 10, 000 retirees per day to the entitlement program roles.
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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And with all the Baby Boomer spawn coming on the college scene, the average age of enrollment is dropping, says Thomas Bailey, professor of education and economics at Teachers College at Columbia University.
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.
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.
Investors too busy counting the different rounds of Quantitative Easing (QE) may have missed out on a trend that is expected to have a strong impact on equity markets: the massive aging of baby boomers that began around 2005, as the first baby boomer cohort crossed the age of 60.
Investors concerned about a global economic slow-down and the approaching fiscal cliff in the US may want to take a close look at another trend that creates good investment opportunities: the massive aging of baby boomers that began around 2005, as the first baby boomer cohort crossed the age of 60.
Many of these jobs are health-care and engineering support positions, driven by the aging baby boomer population and the increasing automation of technology and manufacturing machinery.
This trend, which began around 2005 as the first baby boomer cohort crossed the age of 60, is expected to last until 2024, when the last cohort crosses the age of 65.
The retiring baby boomer population is fueling the market for retirement products.
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Haute couture began a slow decline in the 1950s, accelerated by the baby-boomer youthquake, the radical change in lifestyle that followed and the rise of designer ready-to-wear.
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The rising baby boomer population can then expect to face the considerable challenge of getting quality healthcare on a timely and consistent basis.
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In 1997 Bill Clinton, the young supporter who grew up to be the first baby boomer president, appointed McGovern ambassador to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
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Meanwhile the baby-boomer generation has emerged into adulthood, boosting the share of working-age people.
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".
The average baby boomer was likely to have held 11 jobs over the course of his or her career, including "large numbers of short-duration jobs even at middle age, " said the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2010.
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