Associated PressFebruary 18, 2021
6min662
In the first half of 2020, life expectancy dropped to 77.8.
Tag: baby boomers
Associated PressFebruary 18, 2021
Guest AuthorDecember 11, 2018
6min436
Think about it. Florida is already the third largest state in America and we’re growing by over 1,000 new residents every day. We have 21 million residents and we’ll grow by 5 million more by 2030. By then, we’ll have 3 million more drivers on our roads, 50 million more visitors and we’ll need 20 […]
Guest AuthorApril 11, 20166min247
Given our graying population and rising sea levels, Florida should be the role model for managing old people and coping with flooding backyards. We aren’t, though in fairness to Florida, neither is any other state. Americans — outside of deep-thinking tank people — don’t talk about what the heck we are going to do with […]
Scott PowersMarch 31, 2016
5min310
Huge immigration over the past 40 years have made Hispanics America’s largest minority group but the next wave is Asian immigrants, and they will overtake Hispanic immigration in coming decades, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. What’s more, millennials might already be the nation’s largest generation, surpassing baby boomers. Women breadwinners continue […]
Associated PressMarch 3, 2016
7min177
Standing in a line of thousands outside an arena at Colorado State University, Aleksandr Cronk contemplated the grim possibility that the man he was waiting to see, Bernie Sanders, may not make it to the November ballot and he’d have to decide whether to vote for Hillary Clinton. Like millions of young voters nationwide, Cronk […]
Martin DyckmanAugust 4, 20159min253
America’s doctors have long since made their peace with Medicare, which marked its 50th anniversary last week, but its oldest and most implacable enemy, the ideological right wing, is still bent on destroying it. If you were a politician who shared that purpose, how might you go about it? You’d harp on how the trust […]
Florence SnyderJune 23, 20155min201
“We take that very seriously” is quite possibly the biggest of the big lies they tell in Tallahassee. There’s a ribbon and a 5K walk and a proclamation for everything, but precious little cash on the barrel head for families collapsing under the weight of caring for a loved one whose needs exceed the family’s […]
Guest AuthorSeptember 30, 20146min186
A new AARP poll shows what nearly everyone who lives in Florida has known for some time. There are three basic economic engines in Florida: tourism, agriculture and retirees. Sure, under the umbrella of retirees you can include home building and health care, but if retirees don’t come, the jobs associated with those industries will […]
Guest AuthorMay 15, 20144min189
There are no fancy brochures for this nursing home, no limousines to ferry the residents to malls and concerts, no menus offering an array of choices. It’s not a bad nursing home. It’s old but it’s clean, and the halls are full of staffers who mostly seem cheerful and helpful and attentive even though the […]
Guest AuthorJanuary 1, 20144min149
These days you hardly ever see a balding man trying to hide under a comb-over, and we should consider this to be progress. It’s not on the scale of world peace, but still, it’s a step forward for society, certainly better than those hideous hair twists and turns so common among middle-aged men not so […]