Top News from Today's "Boomiverse"
Silver Threads Among the Old Deliver Retirement Gilt
Jonathan Dart
Sydney Morning Herald
July 18, 2008
Overview: “Most of the 3.4 million Australians older than 45 and planning to retire will do so within 15 years, the Bureau of Statistics has reported. But unlike previous generations, the baby boomers are cashed up and ready to spend their money, said the demographer Bernard Salt.”
The Glummest Generation
Tom Jacobs
Miller-Mccune.com
July 18, 2008
Overview: “Pew finds that baby boomers are gloomier than Americans older and younger than they are — and their gloom has been around for decades.”
http://www.miller-mccune.com/article/503
State Work Force Faces Crush of Retirements, Report Says
William C. Flook
The Examiner
July 18, 2008
Overview: “More than 25 percent of the Department of Corrections’ workers will be able to retire in the next five years. Not all of those employees will choose to leave the work force at once. An estimated 60 to 70 percent of baby boomers are expected to keep working after they reach retirement age, said Tony Hylton, spokesman for the Virginia office of AARP”
Comments (1)
I still think working is good. It gives
one a sense of purpose in life, and the
extra dollars always come in handy. One
can always find some kind of job if it is
a necessity.
carol stanley author "For Kids 59.99
and Over?
Posted by carol stanley | July 18, 2008 11:47 AM
Posted on July 18, 2008 11:47