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Retired John Whitcomb works as a Hy-Vee maintenance technician. CREDIT Annie Smith Barkalow

Iowa’s ‘silver tsunami’: Baby boomers delay retirement as workforce ages

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…