The post office direction is just another flag about our country's directions. The United States is getting older — much older. And as millions of baby boomers retire, businesses and government are hitting older Americans with a host of hardships, from benefit cuts to job losses to evaporating retirements. Seniors may have helped build the nation, and the Greatest Generation may have thwarted global tyranny, but a changing world is now putting their dreams in jeopardy. Watch for examples of how "seniors" are being targeted: Drastic measures that could impact seniors: • The pervasive effects of the aging population • Why aging workforces are expensive • Rockford, Ill. — a microcosm of aging America • How will Obamacare hurt seniors' healthcare coverage • The ever-growing costs of entitlements • Rep. Paul Ryan's radical proposal for Medicare • Why the proportion of young will continue to decline • The significance of the replacement fertility rate • Why Sarasota, Fla., presages America's future • The dramatic shift toward work after "retirement" • Japanese in 2050: 41 million fewer — and much older • The worldwide surge in older citizens • Two agist strategies in economic globalization • The "giant feedback loop" affecting global populations • China's drive for a young workforce • Why older Americans are the new entrepreneurial class
The post office direction is just another flag about our country's directions. The United States is getting older — much older. And as millions of baby boomers retire, businesses and government are hitting older Americans with a host of hardships, from benefit cuts to job losses to evaporating retirements.
ReplyDeleteSeniors may have helped build the nation, and the Greatest Generation may have thwarted global tyranny, but a changing world is now putting their dreams in jeopardy.
Watch for examples of how "seniors" are being targeted:
Drastic measures that could impact seniors:
• The pervasive effects of the aging population
• Why aging workforces are expensive
• Rockford, Ill. — a microcosm of aging America
• How will Obamacare hurt seniors' healthcare coverage
• The ever-growing costs of entitlements
• Rep. Paul Ryan's radical proposal for Medicare
• Why the proportion of young will continue to decline
• The significance of the replacement fertility rate
• Why Sarasota, Fla., presages America's future
• The dramatic shift toward work after "retirement"
• Japanese in 2050: 41 million fewer — and much older
• The worldwide surge in older citizens
• Two agist strategies in economic globalization
• The "giant feedback loop" affecting global populations
• China's drive for a young workforce
• Why older Americans are the new entrepreneurial class