Happy Birthday, Baby Boomers.

Kiplinger's Retirement Report, January, 2006

AS PRESIDENT BUSH TURNS 60 IN 2006, another 2.8 million Americans will also be celebrating their big six-oh and planning the next phase of their lives. In a speech last year about Social Security reform, the President told his audience: "There's a lot of others behind me." And indeed, there are.

Of the 38 million individuals who were born between 1946 and 1955--the leading edge of the boomer generation--most are still alive and kicking. Enshrined in popular culture by the "make love, not war" motto, the youthful defiance that defined the early boomers (with an ...