Baby Boomers: Busting the Myths

The baby boomers, born in the decades following the Second World War, are a larger than usual generation and they are ageing.
Governments are legitimately concerned about what this means for policies, budgets and services. But too often this is translated into boomer blaming. ‘They’ are blamed for the high cost of housing and health care. ‘They’ make the younger generations pay. If ‘they’ want different or smaller jobs, the job market will provide them. It is though boomers are all the same ...