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How Baby Boomers are Changing the Way We Think About Work, Community, and the Good Life
September 2014
On Sale: September 2, 2014
256 pages
ISBN: 1620401576
EAN: 9781620401576
Kindle: B00LP90MW6
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The budget battles of recent years have amplified the
warnings of demographic doomsayers who predicted that a wave
of baby boomers would bleed America dry, bankrupting Social
Security and Medicare as they faded into an impoverished old
age. On the contrary, argues award-winning journalist Chris
Farrell, we are instead on the verge of a broad, positive
transformation of our economy and society. The old idea of “retirement”—a word that means withdrawal,
describing a time when people gave up productive employment
and shrank their activities—was a short-lived historical
anomaly. Humans have always found meaning and motivation in
work and community, Farrell notes, and the boomer
generation, poised to live longer in better health than any
before, is already discovering unretirement—extending their
working lives, often with new careers, entrepreneurial
ventures, and volunteer service. Their experience,
wisdom—and importantly, their continued earnings—will enrich
the American workplace, treasury, and our whole society in
the decades to come. Unretirement not only explains this seismic change, now in
its early stages, it provides key insights and practical
advice for boomers about to navigate this exciting, but
unsettled, new frontier. Drawing on Chris Farrell’s decades
of covering personal finance and economics for Bloomberg
Businessweek and Marketplace Money, this will be an
indispensable guide to the landscape of unretirement from
one of America’s most trusted experts.
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