[quote=eavesdropper]The first Boomers didn’t turn 65 until January 2010. Tell me again how the retirement of those rich, avaricious Baby Boomers is responsible for income inequality?[/quote]
Again, many thanks for another eloquent post!
But “boomers” (as WE ARE, eaves :=0) first turned 65 in January 2011.
As can be seen by the birth rate chart, the “birth boom” of the post–World War II period is, in a way, as much or more defined by the birth dearths that preceded and followed it, than by any exceptionally high fertility rate. Comparing birth rates from 1946 to 1964 with the rates, say, prior to World War I, the post–World War II rates are much lower, though they are high in comparison to the time periods immediately preceding and following 1946 – 1964.
The exact beginning and end of the baby boom can be debated. In the United States, demographers usually use 1946 to 1964 . . .
