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applegrove

(118,006 posts)
Sat Mar 2, 2019, 04:36 PM Mar 2019

Trump not responsible for low unemployment. Demography is.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/03/01/baby-boomers-parting-gift-workforce-one-last-mess/?utm_term=.cbd99985431a&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

By Andrew Van Dam at the Washington Post

"SNIP.....

The youngest baby boomers are around 55 years old. The oldest are in their 70s. Most Americans don’t remember a workforce without the largest generation.

And yet, as boomers enter their final years in the workforce, their retirements are taking companies by surprise.

In the next five years, almost three-quarters of the companies surveyed in 2018 by Willis Towers Watson, a risk-management and insurance brokerage company, expect to face significant or moderate challenges from late retirements. But because nothing is predictable, a significant share are also worried about early ones.


....SNIP"
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Trump not responsible for low unemployment. Demography is. (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2019 OP
If he can steal credit for things he doesn't do... lame54 Mar 2019 #1
K&R smirkymonkey Mar 2019 #2

lame54

(35,130 posts)
1. If he can steal credit for things he doesn't do...
Sat Mar 2, 2019, 04:39 PM
Mar 2019

He can be blamed for things that happen under his watch

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