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Iowa’s ‘silver tsunami’: Baby boomers delay retirement as workforce ages
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Retired John Whitcomb works as a Hy-Vee maintenance technician. CREDIT Annie Smith Barkalow
The term “baby boomer” made its debut in America in 1963, when Leslie J. Nason coined the moniker in a Daily Press article to describe the flood of approaching college enrollments as the oldest of the post-World War II babies came of age.
Since 2000 and continuing as the youngest of the age group now reaches retirement age, the term “silver tsunami” has been used to…
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