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  1. Loans Burden 94 Percent of 2012 Students

    Sun, 13 May 2012

    Yeah it's just an investment in your future it sounds cliche but it's down the. According to one recent study 93%. Of baby boomers are providing some kind of support to their college graduate children. with loans car payments or overwhelming the cost

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    According to one recent study 93%. Of baby boomers are providing some kind of support to their college graduate children. -- with loans car payments or -- overwhelming the cost of

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  1. CDC to Baby Boomers : Get Tested for Hepatitis C

    Fri, 18 May 2012

    U.S. health officials want all baby boomers to get tested for hepatitis C. The draft recommendations calling for all baby boomers to get a one-time blood test for the transfusions. The CDC says more than 2 million baby boomers are infected. They account for more

  2. Boomers' Love of Pets Could Change as Both Age

    Thu, 17 May 2012

    better — like all of my problems have lessened — because I have spent times with my dogs." The loving link between baby boomers like 49-year-old Buscombe and their pets is well documented. Boomers — typically defined as the generation born from

  3. Subdivisions go urban as housing market changes

    Tue, 15 May 2012

    way Americans want to live. Young Millennials and older Baby Boomers are rejecting traditional suburban lifestyles in favor of It's the kids (ages 18 to 32), the empty nesters ( Baby Boomers with no kids at home)," says Chris Leinberger, president

  4. Ahead of Facebook IPO, poll finds user distrust

    Tue, 15 May 2012

    respondents (age 35 and under) were most likely to say Facebook would be a good investment (59% said yes), followed by baby - boomers and Generation X-ers (55% and roughly 50% respectively), followed by seniors (only 39%). As for Mark Zuckerberg

  5. Poll: Half of Americans Call Facebook a Fad

    Tue, 15 May 2012

    posts and pictures. Conversely, it's the rare senior citizen on Facebook: Just 21 percent have an account. Half of baby boomers — the generation born in the years after World War II — have one. But most of the 56 percent of the country that's on

  6. Nurses balance tech advances with old-fashioned patient care

    Sun, 13 May 2012

    patients and continue to work the required shifts." As baby boomers age, the need for nurses will increase. Even though the First's community hospital division. "The veterans and baby boomers feel almost total responsibility for the workplace and will

News

  1. Invest in stocks? Small players still smarting

    Mon, 7 May 2012

    also playing a role in investors' shift to less-risky investments, says Brian Reid, the ICI's chief economist. As Baby Boomers age and enter or near retirement, the need for income and capital preservation increases, reducing the need for a heavy

  2. After Gen X, Millennials, what should next generation be?

    Thu, 3 May 2012

    1900s, we've gone in roughly two-decade-long socio-groupings, from the GI Generation to the Silent Generation to Baby Boomers to Gen Xers to Millennials. Whatever you call it, the still-forming generation of young folks whose birth dates roughly

  3. Times change wills, yet many Americans don't have one

    Sun, 29 Apr 2012

    under the age of 34 do not have a will, says a new survey by the online legal service Rocket Lawyer. And even 41% of aging Baby Boomers do not have one. Most Americans don't have a will because they think it is too expensive, they don't have many assets

  4. Foodies enjoy different tastes than the rest of us

    Wed, 25 Apr 2012

    you think it's great." The survey also revealed big differences in flavor preferences among the age groups. Gen X, Baby Boomers and seniors preferred salty and sweet more than Millennials. Millennials ranked the more adventurous flavor profiles such

  5. Economy's recovery caught between opposing forces

    Tue, 24 Apr 2012

    million total jobs below January 2008. But that effect is slowly wearing off. With a boost from rapid retirements among Baby Boomers , the unemployment rate has dropped nearly 2 percentage points in two years. Two different surveys Tuesday reported

  6. Trustees report Social Security outlook worsening

    Mon, 23 Apr 2012

    began issuing reports in 1970, and they ultimately extend the deadlines out a few more years. However, the realities of Baby Boomers hitting senior-citizen status, Americans living longer and an economy that has supplied fewer workers to pay into Medicare

  7. Social Security and Medicare Could Run Out Sooner Than Expected

    Mon, 23 Apr 2012

    This year's report says that because of an increase in pressure on these programs - Americans are living longer and the baby boomers are beginning to collect - funds could run out sooner than expected. In addition, the slow-rebound of the economy and

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Videos

  1. Spouses Use Hidden Cameras in Divorce Battle

    Thu, 3 May 2012

    Marriage and divorce in America we know now that the divorce rate among baby boomers has increased dramatically by more than 50% in the past twenty years. And tonight a series of court cases across the country

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    and divorce in America we know now that the divorce rate among baby boomers has increased dramatically by more than 50% in the past twenty years. And tonight a series of court cases across the country
  2. Loans Burden 94 Percent of 2012 Students

    Sun, 13 May 2012

    Yeah it's just an investment in your future it sounds cliche but it's down the. According to one recent study 93%. Of baby boomers are providing some kind of support to their college graduate children. with loans car payments or overwhelming the cost

    Baby Boomers found at 2:08

    According to one recent study 93%. Of baby boomers are providing some kind of support to their college graduate children. -- with loans car payments or -- overwhelming the cost of
  3. Advertising for Baby Boomers

    Tue, 26 Feb 2008

    The baby boom generation refers to those Americans born between 1946. And 1964. 78 million strong they are the richest generation this country has ever

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    The baby boom generation refers to those Americans born between 1946. And 1964. 78 million strong they are the richest generation this country has ever seen
  4. Not-So-Golden Years for Baby Boomers

    Tue, 1 Aug 2006

    Many of the more than 78 million Americans in the baby boom generation are counting on an inheritance to help fund their retirement and with good reason. Some experts have been saying for years that

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    Many of the more than 78 million Americans in the baby boom generation are counting on an inheritance to help fund their retirement and with good reason. Some experts have been saying for years that
  5. Baby Boomers Retiring to Texas

    Mon, 18 Jul 2011

    played the location. More than any generation in history baby boomers say they plan to move when they retire. Nearly half saying ABC's Claire Shipman. Takes us to the one American city baby boomers are flocking to faster than anywhere in the country. We

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    location location -- played the location. More than any generation in history baby boomers say they plan to move when they retire. Nearly half saying they'll even crossed state lines and ABC's Claire Shipman. Takes us to the one American city baby boomers are flocking to faster than anywhere in the country.
  6. Plastic Surgery Rise Among Baby Boomers

    Thu, 11 Aug 2011

    Have never taken no for an answer and the baby boomers and tonight they are charging into the next chapter in old she's now part of a surprising new trend. Aging baby boomers undergoing body rejuvenation. My face breast implants

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    Have never taken no for an answer and the baby boomers and tonight they are charging into the next chapter in mass insisting they want to look as good as they feel. And
    66 years old she's now part of a surprising new trend. Aging baby boomers undergoing body rejuvenation. My face -- breast implants and eyelid work in fact the number of cosmetic surgery patients over 65 has
  7. Baby Boomers Get Physical

    Fri, 22 Jul 2011

    Here in the good life all week we've been telling you how boomers are rewriting the rules of retirement and there's one thing many are now focusing on in this next chapter more than any other. They wanna get healthy. And they're discovering that their inner athlete turns out they're aging bodies

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