Top News from Today's "Boomiverse"
Unique Ways to Play the Baby Boomer Market
Donna Fuscaldo
www.foxbusiness.com
Overview: “When it comes to playing the baby boomer market, the usual suspects come to mind—health care and pharmaceuticals. But those industries aren’t the only ones that stand to benefit.”
Baby Boomer 'Brain Drain' Will Be a Slow Leak
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
www.informationweek.com
Overview: “Even before the first wave of baby boomers began reaching retirement age, predictions of an impending brain drain looked pretty dire. About 50% of the federal government’s workforce was expected to retire over the next few years. Now, it looks like many of those people will be staying put longer.”
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/02/baby_boomer_bra.html
Discovering Second Acts In Sustained Working Lives
Marc Freedman
www.nytimes.com
Overview: “Marc Freedman has become the voice of aging baby boomers who are eschewing retirement for what he calls ‘encore careers,’ long periods of meaningful and sustaining work later in life. Mr. Freedman, who was one of the founders of Experience Corps, now runs Civic Ventures, an incubator of programs and ideas to redefine the second half of life. One of those programs, the Purpose Prize, gives monetary awards to entrepreneurial innovators over the age of 60 who have contributed to the social good.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/jobs/11shift.html?_r=2&ref=smallbusiness&oref=slogin&oref=slogin