Top News from Today's "Boomiverse"
Boomer-Friendly Companies to Recruit Workers at Job Fair
Susan Felt
www.azcentral.com
Overview: “Some of the estimated 80 companies registered to recruit at the Boomerz Job Fair on Monday will sport the baby boomers' equivalent of the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.”
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/arizonaliving/articles/0920jobfair0920.html
Room Alternatives: Empty Nesters Fill their Homes and Reinvent their Space
www.app.com
Overview: “Basements become workshops. Children's rooms become libraries. And sprawling life in suburbia transforms into streamlined city life. These are some of the housing and home decorating trends demonstrated by the nation's more than 80 million baby boomers entering their empty-nest years. Often far from retirement, this fast-growing segment of the U.S. population is clearly enjoying its newfound freedom. Today's parents are finally treating themselves to the luxuries they have been dreaming about for years.”
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070920/LIFE/709200374/1006
The Peace Corps Ramps up Recruiting of Boomer Retirees
Barb Galbincea
www.seattletimes.com
Overview: “Ten days after his 50th college reunion, John Baker joined the Peace Corps. The Collinwood, Ohio, resident was 70 years old. His wife, Kathy, who also signed up, was 61.”
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/2003892647_peacecorps20.html