Aging Baby Boomers

'Baby boomer' is a term given to someone who was born during the Post-World War II baby boom.Different societies, groups, individuals, and specialists have varied differences in perspectives or insights regarding on what makes a baby boomer, both in a contextual aspect and socio-cultural perspective.

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Boomers Buck the Trend for Retirement Hot Spots - CNBC

Just as the Baby Boom generation shifted the trajectory of American culture in the post-World War II era, as the first wave of Boomers reaches retirement age, they are beginning to shift the paradigm of how�and where�Americans spend their post-career years.

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Are Crime Rates Truly Falling

Article........Both experts are mistaken. First, crime rates have gone down since the early 1990s in all the major western nations of the world which have experienced post-World War II baby boom. Crime rates increased in the 1970s in all of these nations as the baby boomers became young adults. As I explain in a previous post, crime is largely a

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Is Sarah Palin a Baby Boomer or a Member of Generation X?

Born in 1964, the last "official" year of the post-World War II Baby Boom, Sarah Palin is considered by some to be a member of "Generation X."

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Prefab-ulous Living

With the end of World War II came an unprecedented boom, the combination of pent-up demand, new mass manufacturing capabilities, the post war marriage and ensuing baby boom all converged to require swift, efficient, and mass production of homes for the new suburbs.William J Levitt was a pioneer in the development of Prefab housing as a solution for

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