As boomers wrinkle
The most troublesome age group ever still has some last fireworks up its sleeve
FROM the moment they entered the workforce in the 1960s, baby-boomers began to shape America's economy and politics. They will do the same as they leave. The first of the estimated 78m Americans born between 1946 and 1964 turn 65 in 2011, the normal age for retirement. As their ranks swell in coming years, the burden of financing their retirement will mount. So will their electoral importance.
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