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FH Boom Daily Digest – August 2, 2010

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 05:34 AM PDT

Top News From Today's "Boomiverse"

Boomers are more hip than many think
MarketWatch
August 2, 2010

Overview: "Automakers are trying something new with the sticker prices of new gas sippers. Hip boomers break stereotypes. Manufacturing activity and construction spending both look better than expected. It's all here on MarketWatch News Break."
http://tinyurl.com/2f62oj6

Generation gaps at work not just about age, study says
University of Illinois
R&D Magazine
August 2, 2010

Overview: "Businesses that look only at age to bridge generational gaps among workers risk losing knowledge to retirements, higher turnover and other productivity-clogging problems, new University of Illinois research has found."
http://tinyurl.com/28ykzvq

2012 Project hopes to recruit new generation of female candidates
Sandhya Somashekhar
Washington Post
August 2, 2010

Overview: "Despite a number of high-profile female candidates this year, women have yet to break through in politics the way they have in the rest of the workforce. … Now, a group of activists and academics hopes to train a new generation of female candidates in time for the 2012 elections. … They will place a particular emphasis on encouraging "Third Act" women -- baby boomers who might be looking for a new challenge after family and careers."
http://tinyurl.com/26hsctc

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