BUSINESS
By Hanah Cho, The Baltimore Sun | January 8, 2011
The nation's original baby boomer turned 65 on New Year's Day, representing another milestone for a generation. Kathleen Casey-Kirschling, who celebrated her birthday with family at her second home on Maryland's Eastern Shore, is the very first of more than 78 million baby boomers who will turn grayer during the next two decades. That means they can collect Social Security — and now Medicare benefits. According to the Pew Research Center, about 10,000 baby boomers will turn 65 every day. All baby boomers, those who were born between 1946 and 1965, will reach that threshold by 2030.
EXPLORE
August 18, 2011
The people who run senior centers are finding that the baby boomers who are beginning to populate them don't want bingo, they want belly dancing (see our Page 1 story). These aging boomers are less inclined than their parents were to pull up stakes and move to Florida, or even into nearby retirement housing. They want to stay right where they are, in the homes they know, and local officials have sharpened their focus on ways to help them achieve that goal. Observing the determination of this new segment of the senior population to stay put and to keep doing physical things instead of shuffling off to some warm corner to await the inevitable quietly, the cynic might say it's a result of denial: The people who came of age in the don't-trust-anyone-over-30 culture of the 1960s are vainly clinging to their youth.
NEWS
Susan Reimer | April 22, 2013
We baby boomers get blamed for just about every economic hiccup, because there are so many of us. And our children are particularly furious because they believe the crisis in Social Security, which may affect their ability to retire, can be laid at our feet like kindling for a burning at the stake. They are convinced we boomers, with our outsized appetites and sense of entitlement, are going to consume everything on our way to the cemetery, right down to the amount of ground we leave for those who die after us. But data from the Social Security Administration itself, provided by chief actuary Stephen Goss, demonstrates that boomers are not the pig-through-the-python that we have been described as being.
NEWS
By Giuliani Alexei Bayer | July 18, 1999
NEW YORK -- Economists like to emphasize the importance of economic policy. They are quick to give credit to sound policies in periods of prosperity and look for policy mistakes whenever things go wrong.But they tend to disregard the enormous role played by demographics. There is, for example, a heated debate in this country over which policies created the current economic boom.Yet, with all due respect for various economic ideologies, it could merely be that the baby boom generation is responsible.
NEWS
By Frank Roylance | August 6, 2003
It's a bummer, man. Millions of baby boomers, raised on rock 'n' roll and once the drivers of America's youth culture, have finally been tossed in with their aged parents. They're now part of the U.S. Census Bureau's "older population," meaning everyone age 55 and up. The post-World War II baby boom arrived between 1946 and 1964, and the oldest of them are turning 57 this year. That puts many of them squarely in the bureau's first category of elders, between ages 55 and 64 -- the "near old."
NEWS
By Jim Castelli | November 6, 1990
AMERICAN RELIGIOUS leaders have been fascinated with the Baby Boom generation -- and with good reason.First of all, Boomers make up one-third of the whole population. When they were younger, their parents flocked to churches and synagogues to provide religious education for their children.As the Boomers grew up, however, they left the church in large numbers. They were particularly responsible for the membership declines in mainline Protestant denominations since the '60s.For more than a decade, religious leaders have been looking to the Boomers to return to church.