Word: boomer
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When the first baby boomer filed for Social Security in mid-October, chills must have coursed along Laurence Kotlikoff's spine. For years the Boston University economist, among others, has been warning of our pending financial crisis--the burden of Social Security and health care for our largest generation on the shoulders of a diminishing proportion of workers. "We're creating our own fiscal catastrophe," Kotlikoff said in 2004. At the same time, businesses have been desperate to contain rising health-care premiums. Three years later, Kotlikoff is still determinedly on message--and offers his own radical cure...
...Arthur Rice, Westerville, Ohio It's the 40th anniversary of 1968 next year. And all but one of the presidential candidates-Barack Obama is the exception-are people who came of age during that time. That decade was the first full-throated roar of the baby boomer generation...
First baby boomer files for Social Security...
...Growing Up on TV James Poniewozik's cleverly perceptive essay on the new CBS reality series Kid Nation made this baby boomer choke back tears for the good old days [Oct. 1]. Back in the 1950s and early '60s it was neither unlawful nor uncaring for adults to say that children should be seen but not heard. Kids got to be kids as they ran around outside playing hide-and-seek under the stars without worry of being snatched, molested or organized into youth activities, while parents sipped beer or pop while playing Yahtzee with their pals after hand-washing...
Growing Up on TV James Poniewozik's cleverly perceptive essay on the new CBS reality series Kid Nation made this baby boomer choke back tears for the good old days [Oct. 1]. Back in the 1950s and early '60s, it was neither unlawful nor uncaring for adults to say that children should be seen but not heard. Kids got to be kids as they ran around outside playing hide-and-seek under the stars without worry of being snatched, molested or organized into youth activities, while parents sipped beer or pop while playing Yahtzee with their pals after hand-washing...