Baby Boomers

In Tenuous Times, Get Back To Basics

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 03.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Getting Back to Basics, Wisdom, Inflation, Mythology, Economic Crisis, Baby Boomers, Icarus, Living News
Dr. Cara Barker

Tenuous Times With the economy's Dominos Effect kicking in these days, most of us are feeling the pinch. Increasingly, we hear gloomy predictions o...

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Don't Most Republican Need Social Security, Too?

Russ Wellen | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Financial Crisis, Social Security, Baby Boomers, Bail-Out, Republicans, Wall Street, Retirement, Gop, Politics News
Russ Wellen

It's folly to give Republicans credit for anything. The lack of rhyme in their response to the stimulus suggests that at this point they stand for nothing more than sheer nihilism.

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Peaceful Revolution: Investing in Our Human Infrastructure

Riane Eisler | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women's Rights, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Green Jobs, Obama Stimulus, Women's Issues, Children, Economy, Creating Jobs, A Peaceful Revolution, Working Women, Infrastructure, Obama Stimulus Plan, Economic Stimulus Package, Stimulus Package, Health Care, Elderly, Women, Baby Boomers, Poverty, National Infrastructure, Economic Crisis, Elderly Americans, Stimulus, Investing, Early Education, Green Infrastructure, Obama Working Women, Women's Health, Childcare, Economic Stimulus, Children's Health, Healthcare, Politics News
Riane Eisler

The Real Wealth of our Nation is Its People Over half a million people lost their jobs last month. There's no question we need a job-creation plan. T...

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New Rules for a New Era

Michael Hais and Morley Winograd | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Millennial Generation, Millennials, Barack Obama, Civic Generation, John F. Kennedy, Baby Boomers, Obama's Inauguration, GI Generation, Age, Obama Inauguration, New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, Barack Obama Inauguration, Norman Mailer, Politics, Activism, Inauguration, Political Activism, New York Times, Politics News
Michael Hais and Morley Winograd

Unlike candidates in the idealist era that just ended, Obama ran a national campaign and competed in formerly rock-ribbed Republican states. His reward? Victory in nine 2004 red states.

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Life is Short. Have an Affair.

Carine Fabius | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Marriage, Infidelity, Monogamy, Dr. Phil, Relationships, Dating, Cheating, Affairs, The Internet, Women, Baby Boomers, Tang, Computers, Web, Websites, Gay, Internet, Romance, Los Angeles Times, Gays, Technology, Love, Living News
Carine Fabius

What do you think about a site that makes it easy to find people interested in having affairs? I'm thinking this is not geared to the younger set, but rather to aging boomers.

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Liberal Parents, Liberal Children

Marty Kaplan | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: College Students, Political Identity, Liberal Politics, Baby Boomers, Youth Vote, Liberals, Politics News
Marty Kaplan

When it comes to politics, today's college freshmen resemble their baby boomer parents of 40 years ago in all ways except two. One way makes perfect sense; the other is a puzzle.

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Obama Gearing up to Take on Entitlement Programs

Mark Miller | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Social Security, Baby Boomers, Obama, Medicare, Entitlement Programs, Health Care, Seniors, Politics News
Mark Miller

There are no easy fixes for Social Security or Medicare, but Obama plans to tackle entitlement reform head-on to get the government's financial house in order.

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What's Your Poison?

Michael Sigman | Posted 02.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Spirituality, Financial Security, Baby Boomers, Buddha, Rick Perlstein, Economy, Recession Fears, Job Security, Economic Fears, Financial Crisis, Buddha Poisons, Nixonland, Recession, Living News
Michael Sigman

Economic greed and fear are two sides of the same coin. When things start getting better, will the preoccupation with money also abate? Or will fear simply be replaced by another cycle of greed?

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Optimism We Can Believe In

Frank Cooper III | Posted 01.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Financial Crisis, Baby Boomers, Pepsi Generation, Gen X, Millenials, Optimism, Barack Obama, Millenials Optimism, Politics News
Frank Cooper III

Our recent survey discovered that despite the recession and the impact it is already having on jobs and long-term prospects, the Millennial generation may be the most optimistic.

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Amazing Braces

Jerry Zezima | Posted 01.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Food, Baby Boomers, Periodontics, Orthodontics, Teeth, Humor, Health, Braces, Orthodontist, Invisible Braces, Adult Braces, Oral Procedure, Living News
Jerry Zezima

I have fallen arches. This would be bad enough if they were in my feet, or even worse, if they fell while I was eating at McDonald's. But these arches...

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You Are a Whole Different Person When You Are Scared

Val Strange | Posted 01.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Holidays, New Year's Eve, Depression, Baby Boomers, Fear, The Great Depression, Hope, Economy, Medical, Democracy, Taxpayers, Election, Death, Chris Shays, American Experiment, Politics, History, Scared, Dreams, Uninsured, Bailout, Christmas, Foreclosure, Family, American Dream, Politics News
Val Strange

The cancer of our sick economy already metastasized to the bone, but analysts are hard-pressed to diagnose the current conditions akin to the Great Depression.

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The Economically Bipolar Generation

Adam Blickstein | Posted 01.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Political Psychology, Baby Boomers, Stock Market, Economy, Business News
Adam Blickstein

My generation has suffered from some pretty severe childhood financial trauma. We've been savaged in rapid succession with the one-two punch of decadent irrational exuberance and complete systematic economic collapse.

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Obama's Call to Public Service and the Boomer Generation

Mark Miller | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Civic Participation, Volunteering, Barack Obama, Public Service, Baby Boomers, Obama Public Service, Economy, Politics News
Mark Miller

Boomers were a big force in Obama's army of campaign foot soldiers, and tapping them for broader public service would have a huge impact -- in part because there are so many of us.

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Exercise Body and Brain for Lifelong Cognitive Health

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 12.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Baby Boomers, Aging, Cognitive Decline, Mental Exercise, Physical Exercise, Health, Cognitive Health, Brain Fitness, Living News
Alvaro Fernandez

The American Medical News, just published an excellent article to bring recent brain fitness research into doctor's attention.

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Driving Change From Inside Your Workplace (Yes, You Can!)

Julia Moulden | Posted 12.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Giving Life, Baby Boomers, Workplace, S Renewable Energy, Stanley Bostitch, The Giving Life, Ed Sutt, Innovation, New Radicals, President-Elect Obama, Julia Moulden, Living News
Julia Moulden

The response to last week's post made me realize it's time to write about New Radical Innovators (New Radicals are people like you and me who've found...

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Obama: Globalization of Joy

Diane Francis | Posted 12.06.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Politics, Baby Boomers, Chicago, Civil Rights, Obama Grant Park, Oprah, Jesse Jackson, Barack Obama, Obama Grant Park Speech, Kansas, Grant Park, Africans, Election Results, President Obama, Obama Presidency, HuffPost Election Reaction, Chicago News
Diane Francis

Chicago's Grant Park was filled to the brim with half a million happy, cheering Americans from every socio-economic slice of America's multicultural society.

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Attention GenY'ers! Talk To Your Parents! Don't Let GenJonesers Vote Against Themselves!

David Paulsen | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Phil Gramm, Baby Boomers, Colin Powell, Complacency, Abortion Rights, Millennials, Obama, Barack Obama, Undecided Voters, Generation Jones, Swing Voters, Generation X, Boomers, Global Warming, Generation Y, Voting, Joneser, Genxers, Geny, Genx, Genjones, Politics News
David Paulsen

Convince them, as the children of several former Republican Governors convinced their parents to come out for Obama, as GenJoneser Caroline Kennedy's GenY kids moved her from Hillary to Barack.

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When Politics Became The New Hip Hop

Barry Michael Cooper | Posted 11.15.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Gop, Mccain, Obama, Hip Hop, Dnc, Barack Obama, Palin, Baby Boomers, Millenials, Election 2008, Entertainment News
Barry Michael Cooper

I don't know if he or the Republican Party understands that it is the culture of Hip Hop that has directly -- and indirectly -- fueled the youth movement behind Barack Obama.

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Optimists Anyonymous!

Jeff Goldsmith | Posted 11.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Economic Optimism, Baby Boomers, Social Security, Wall Street Crisis, Bailout, Optimism, Retirement, Economy, Business News
Jeff Goldsmith

What we actually need to do is to clear away the wreckage, learn the important lessons about why you can't make risk simply disappear, and start dreaming again.

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McCain's Social Security Plan Would Cut Benefits To People Who Already Paid For Them

Stephen Herrington | Posted 10.27.2008 | Home

Read More: Taxes, Baby Boomers, Gdp, Retirement, Aflcio, Social Security, Economy, Tax Cuts, Ssa, Alan Greenspan, McCain Social Security, Tax Hike, John McCain, Barack Obama, Home News
Stephen Herrington

The conventional wisdom is that higher taxes hurt the economy. There is no actual evidence of that. In fact if you plot tax rates against GDP, there is no observable correlation.

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A New Age for Individual Service

Tom Nelson and Usher Raymond IV | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Civic Duty, Aarp, Baby Boomers, New Look Foundation, Millenials, Servicenation, Volunteers, HuffPost Inauguration Ball, Politics News
Tom Nelson and Usher Raymond IV

Younger Americans in the millennial generation, many of whom went to schools that required service to graduate, are better prepared for civic engagement than any other generation in our history.

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Brand McCain as Bush's "Co-Conspirator"

Paul Abrams | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Baby Boomers, Barack Obama, Bob Casey, Politics News
Paul Abrams

Whatever the reason, the Obama campaign needs a more powerful word than "90%" to connect McCain to Bush. My vote is for "co-conspirator".

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Women's Lib - Boomer Style

Doreen Orion | Posted 10.05.2008 | Style

Read More: Happiness, Turning 50, Age, Baby Boomers, Liberation, Wine, Diet, Boomers, Self-Assured, Culture, Style News
Doreen Orion

As I close in on fifty, I've made a shocking discovery: I just don't care. I'm learning that there is so much that is surprisingly, gloriously, wondrously liberating about the half-century mark.

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It's the Women, Stupid

Lisa Witter | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: The Atlantic Monthly, Hillary Clinton, Baby Boomers, Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton 2008, Women Voters, Young Women, Politics News
Lisa Witter

It's the women, stupid: Did mismanagement lose Senator Clinton's bid for the White House? Or was it Mark Penn's bad strategy to woo women? It's clear...

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Reincarnation Alert! The Depression Generation Is Returning! Meet the Upside-Down Generation

Adam Hanft | Posted 08.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Baby Boomers, Gen Y, Economy, Great Depression, Gen X, Business News
Adam Hanft

Gen X and Gen Y are fed up with their boomer parents, so rejecting their values in the wake of the current financial mess -- values, that, the argument goes, helped create it -- will come easy.

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