Expert: As Baby Boomers Turn 60, Diversity and Inequality Likely to Continue to Divide Storied Generation.

AScribe Health News Service, January, 2006

Byline: Duke University

DURHAM, N.C., Jan. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Although baby boomers are generally better off than previous generations, the enormous inequalities among the boomers mean many will struggle with poverty, declining health and lack of family networks as they age, two Duke University sociologists say.

One of the key findings of their year-old study, called "The Lives and Times of the Baby Boomers," is that far from being the homogeneous Ozzie-and-Harriet kids of boomer myth, the generation born between 1946 and 1964 is incredibly diverse.

At midlife, for example, boomers have the highest wage inequality of any recent generation. Late boomers -- born between 1956 and 1964 -- have the highest levels of poverty since the...

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