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the larger than expected generation in United States born shortly after World War II

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They are less chaotic than young people but the Baby-Boom Generation who have gone through and survived heroin haven't looked after themselves.
That's some 2 million more than the baby-boom generation born between 1946 and 1964.
The expectation that the retirement of the baby-boom generation will eventually require a drawdown of these fund balances does, however, provide some mitigation of these concerns.
The demographic these magazines target is the very baby-boom cohort for whom this kind of 1950s retreat to domesticity was anathema.
Because the group of people born in the United States between 1945 and the mid-1960s - the baby-boom generation - has made an unprecedented decision: It's the first generation to voluntarily not replace itself in the population pool.
Doing so would mean taking more from middle-class earners In the near term, which would allow the plan to build up enough surplus in the next decade or so to carry it through the worst of the baby-boom bulge.
Step one in the Clinton recovery had been The American President - a muy simpatico portrait of an affable, narrowly elected, pragmatically waffling baby-boom Democrat characterized by a lack of military service, a teenage daughter, and a vague sense of some personal compromise.
Members of the older generation, who remember their own struggles during the Great Depression, view their children as having inflated expectations or being too materialistic and unwilling to accept the sacrifices necessary to "make it." They often "cast the problems of their children in moral terms, as a matter of choice, and the choices are taken as symptomatic of a debilitating virus that has settled into the souls of the overly ambitious baby-boom generation" (p.
The Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs (PICPA) surveyed 500 members with clients who are either in the baby-boom age bracket or employed by companies owned or managed by baby boomers.
baby-boom generation, born between 1946 and 1964, is the largest generation in the nations's history.
The show, by the way, is a lifestyle magazine aimed at the baby-boom generation - hence the title.
The truth is that even the optimistic economic projections used by the Bush administration envision slower growth in federal spending on healthcare, even as the first wave of the postwar baby-boom generation turns 60 years old (in 2006).
Younger Canadians, offspring of the baby-boom generation, have grown up without the Church attendance tradition, but, according to the poll, have still managed to retain the basic elements of faith.
Baby-boom women make up slightly more than half of a generation of 76.5 million born between 1946 and 1964 during a period of high fertility in the United States.
But the baby-boom "peg" reveals how nervous many of the neocon media are at the prospect of some 1960s values and ideas being legitimized.