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FH Boom Daily Digest – May 21, 2010

Posted: 21 May 2010 05:00 AM PDT

Top News From Today's "Boomiverse"

Will Boomers Help or Hurt Funeral Industry?
Kenneth Gronbach
CNBC
May 20, 2010

Overview: "Naturally, it's true the Boomers are aging, but they were nowhere near being elderly, not by a long shot. In fact, 15 years ago, when the prediction about their imminent death was made, Baby Boomers ranged in age from about 31 to 50."
http://tinyurl.com/29au3qo

Dependency Ratio' Set to Spike as Baby Boomers Age
Conor Dougherty
Wall Street Journal
May 20, 2010

Overview: "The burden of aging baby boomers will rise sharply over the next two decades and then ease around 2030, according to a Census Bureau report released today."
http://tinyurl.com/2g4lnzk

What Do Older Generations Misunderstand About Yours?
Katherine Schulten
New York Times
May 21, 2010

Overview: "Several articles published in The Times this week describe how different generations were shaped by social and political events around them."
http://tinyurl.com/268w66c

Dad Is Denied the Last Word
Michael Winerip
New York Times
May 21, 2010

Overview: "This is my last Generation B column. I start a new assignment for the newspaper soon. Like a lot of the people I have written about over the last year and a half, I'm being reinvented. I enjoyed writing about my fellow baby boomers, though it was tricky, making generalizations about a cohort 78 million deep. We think we can conjure a boomer with two words: Woodstock, baby."
http://tinyurl.com/268w66c

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