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There was a baby boom in the U.S. after World War II.
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Context: The 1950s were a time of a post-war economic boom where suburbs exploded amid a baby boom as the nation embarked on building a massive highway system.
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Russell Contreras, Axios, 2 Nov. 2024
Chile’s privatized system of individual accounts receives kudos on Wall Street but has provided frustratingly low retirement incomes to the country’s baby boom generation.
—Andres Velasco, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2022
As the baby boom generation has increasingly shifted into retirement, fewer workers are paying into the system.
—Louis Jacobson, Austin American-Statesman, 4 Aug. 2024
Those who wistfully compare today’s relatively low fertility rates with the baby booms of the 1950s and 1960s should remember that the rates of this period were in fact historically outliers.
—Vegard Skirbekk, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2024
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Russell Contreras, Axios, 2 Nov. 2024
Chile’s privatized system of individual accounts receives kudos on Wall Street but has provided frustratingly low retirement incomes to the country’s baby boom generation.
—Andres Velasco, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2022
As the baby boom generation has increasingly shifted into retirement, fewer workers are paying into the system.
—Louis Jacobson, Austin American-Statesman, 4 Aug. 2024
Those who wistfully compare today’s relatively low fertility rates with the baby booms of the 1950s and 1960s should remember that the rates of this period were in fact historically outliers.
—Vegard Skirbekk, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2024
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“Baby boom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/baby%20boom. Accessed 15 Dec. 2024.
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