(Sponsor) A baby boomer putting money into a piggy bank Following the Second World War, baby boomers benefited en masse from the economic boom that followed, with the U.S. coming out of the war as ...

Baby boomers, born 1946-1964, are retiring, impacting labor and economic productivity. Their retirement strains Social Security and Medicare, presenting public funding challenges. Investment ...

Appropriately named, the "baby boom" occurred after World War II and is marked by a period of increased births larger and longer than generations before it. According to the United States Census ...

the baby boom posed a problem: Where would all those growing families live? For 15 years, thanks to the Depression and World War II, there had been virtually no new housing built in the United States.

The Baby Boomer name, of course, comes from the boom in births in the U.S. following World War II. (To be technical, researchers recognized by the Census Bureau place Harris’s October 20 birth a ...