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May 10, 2018

The American economy is humming along, but many Americans continue to worry about how they’ll pay for their retirement. Nearly half (46 percent) said they “won’t be financially comfortable when they retire,” according to a Gallup poll. These numbers are somewhat better than when the same question was asked immediately following the Great Recession of […]

Census Bureau: Older Americans Will Outnumber Children by 2030

March 15, 2018

Older people will outnumber children in the United States for the first time ever in 2030, according to the U.S. government. According to a U.S. Census Bureau projection, by 2030, the baby boomer generation, born between 1946 and 1964, will have turned 65, making one out of every five Americans retirement age. “The aging of […]

When Can Older Americans Expect to Retire? Maybe Never

May 11, 2016

Both of the leading presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton, 68, and Donald Trump, 69, are pushing 70, an age when most Americans traditionally contemplate retirement, rather than seek one of the world’s most stressful and demanding jobs. But Clinton and Trump could be on to something. More than half of older Americans are expected to keep […]

US Millennials Beat Baby Boomers as Largest Living Generation

April 29, 2016

The long reign of the baby boomers is over. The millennial generation is now the United States’ largest living generation, according to figures from the U.S. Census Bureau. There are now 75.4 million millennials—people born during the period from 1981 and 1997—who were between the ages of 18 and 34 in 2015. They edged past […]

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