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Blackvegetable » 14 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

14 minutes ago

Admit that you have no idea, don't even know where to look, and I'll do it for you.

The United States is experiencing a demographic shift where the massive Baby Boomer generation is aging into retirement while national birth rates remain near historic lows. As a result, the ratio of retirees to new labor force entrants has shifted dramatically over the past two decades. 

• The Retirement Wave: An average of over 4.1 million Americans turn 65 each year. Retirements frequently outpace the volume of new workers entering the economy, causing significant strains on the labor pool. 
• Declining Births: The U.S. fertility rate is hovering around 1.6 births per woman, which is well below the 2.1 replacement level required to keep the population constant without immigration.
• Worker Shortages: With fewer children being born and the retirement age population expanding, demographic economists project that the native-born U.S. labor force will shrink. This dynamic is steadily increasing the dependency ratio, meaning a smaller pool of working-age adults is tasked with supporting a much larger retired population.