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Wake-up Call
Medicare and health cost derived from the baby-boomer generation are driving the U.S. governments debts. "According to Government Accountability Office projections, if the federal government stays the course and makes no major changes in programs or taxes, it will be able to do little more than pay interest on its debts in just 30 years."
Tags: budget; Medicare; Social Security; Iraq; federal deficit; tax; reforms;
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Green With Envy: Why Keeping UP With The Joneses is Keeping Us in Debt
Author Shira Boss investigates the effect of money on our society and on the way we live. A major point is that some who put on a show of being well-to-do are actually struggling behind the scenes. She examines situations including a family living in a gated community yet racking up credit-card debt, a politician who has to sleep on a cot, and a 50-something baby boomer who's peers are set, but who has kids in college and no retirement fund. Boss also uses statistics from economics, psychology, sociology and cultural anthropology to show that sometimes keeping up appearances can be reckless financially.
Tags: Wealth; debt; bankruptcy; earnings; keeping up with the Joneses; economics; psychology; sociology; cultural anthropology
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Boomer Havens and Young Adult Magnets
Census 2000 data show an increasing divide in geographic distribution patterns between the Baby Boomer generation and the Young Adult generation. Most Boomers live in New England and the eastern seaboard, the upper Midwest, the upper Rocky Mountain west and the Pacific Northwest. More Young Adults are opting to live in the Sun Belt areas of the South and most of the West.
Tags: Demographics; Census 2000; census; Baby Boomers; Young Adult
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Luxury by Design, Quality by Chance
Some of the big builders of luxury homes have cut corners in their rush to earn profits during the construction boom of the 1990s. New owners and building inspectors note walls that are unsecured to foundations, fake stucco, water-soaked wood that warped upon drying, sloping floors, uncompacted ground, and other kinds of building mistakes. Homeowners also charge Toll Brothers, one of the nation's most successful building corporations, with misrepresentation, sloppy siting, and building floor models that were far better built than the homes they later purchased. Further, the "major builders will not sell homes to buyers unless they sign away in advance their right to bring lawsuits."
Tags: home building; construction; developments; real estate; Toll Brothers; Pulte Corp.; semi-custom homes; architect; safety; energy efficiency; building plans; Anderson windows; water heaters; building codes; oversight; baby boomers
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Shades of Gray
Education Week examines how the funding of public schools may change as the nation's population ages. As the baby boomer generation nears retirement age, many analysts believe schools will face tougher competition for public resources. "It is far from a given, but many analysts have foreseen that an economy that is straining to pay the public and private pensions, an even more, the medical costs of a mammoth elderly population will have trouble finding money for the needs of young people."
Tags: schools; retirement; baby boomers; elderly; funding; public resources; politics; Florida
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Aging state faces care crisis
This two-part series consists of several articles dealing with the state of nursing homes and the health care involved. The article examines the issue of what could happen once the baby boomers reach their 80s. Many different articles tackle many different issues on the subject.
Tags: health care; nursing homes; News-Press
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No title (id: 13849)
As Baby Boomers have become parents themselves, the list of vaccines required to fully immunize a child in this country has grown to include 16 immunizations that guard against 11 different diseases, making the vaccine industry a booming business with estimated revenues of more than $1 billion in the U.S. alone, up from $500 million in 1990. Money decided to investigate this rapidly growing business by closely examining two of the vaccines with the longest track records in this country: polio and DPT. Parent trust that producing the safest vaccines possible is a goal that manufacturers will strive for and that federal regulatory agencies will ensure is met on their behalf. Unfortunately, Money's investigation revealed that public trust has been violated. The result: hundreds of previously healthy children needlessly have suffered vaccine-caused death or permanent injury when safer alternative were available. (December, 1996)
Tags: Rock Kirwan The lethal danger of the billion-dollar vaccine business Contest entry 17 pgs.
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With the first of the baby boomers now entering their fifties, Money decided to take a tough look at the problems older employees face in the workplace. A three-month investigation demonstrated that age bias remains pervasive three decades after Congress enacted the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to protect workers 40 and older. Even more surprising Money reports, is that the problem may be getting worse. (July, 1996)
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No title (id: 13268)
Squeezed by downsizing and seduced by the lure of owning their own businesses, baby boomers are flocking to franchising in droves. Smart Money investigates how franchisers often end up being the big winners while private citizens who have just sunk their savings into franchises end up as the losers. (April 1996)
Tags: Holson Have We Got a Deal For You Investment Entrepreneur 10 pgs.
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No title (id: 10309)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch runs a three-part series on problems within the Missouri nursing home industry; focuses on low wages and high turnover in nursing home staff, violations and fatalities in nursing homes and coming problems within the industry once baby-boomers are elderly, June 13 - 14, 1993.