The Coming Gero-Economy

Sunday, February 28, 2010 - 14:28 in Mathematics & Economics

Green jobs—great. But gray jobs, maybe an even better bet. If there is a single graphic that everyone concerned with the nation’s future should have tattooed on their eyeballs, my vote goes to this one: Here is its central message: Forty years from now, one out of four Americans will be 65 or older. Twenty million will be over 85. One million will be over 100. read more

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