Top News From Today's "Boomiverse"
Boomers Staying On Job
Stephen Ohlemacher, Associated Press
The Hartford Courant
June 12, 2007
Overview: Ohlemacher reports, “As the baby boomers begin to ease into their 60s, most expect to delay retirement longer than their parents or grandparents. That's good because many can't afford to stop working anytime soon.”
http://www.courant.com/business/hc-retire0612.artjun12,0,5008390.story?coll=hc-headlines-business
Boomers refuse to be buried like everyone else
Linell Smith
The Baltimore Sun
June 10, 2007
Overview: Smith discusses how baby boomers are planning creative and environmentally friendly funerals.
Baby boomers: broke, ailing and anxious
Amelia Hill
The Observer
June 10, 2007
Overview: Hill writes, “Baby Boomers lived through the longest period of peace and prosperity in the 20th century, untested by mass unemployment, war or economic depression. They were the iconoclasts who made the Sixties a decade of change and saw the world as open to their influence. They were spoilt for choice. But according to the largest research project of its kind they are now getting worried.”
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2099545,00.html