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NEWS ABOUT: baby boom

baby boom stories: 14 news summaries

Social Security Faces Grim Forecast for 2010, 2011

Payouts will exceed tax receipts for first time since 1980s

Sep 27, 09 4:40 PM CDT
(AP) - Big job losses and a spike in early retirement claims from laid-off seniors will force Social Security to pay out more in benefits than it collects in taxes the next 2 years, the first time that's happened since the 1980s. The deficits—$10 billion in 2010 and $9 billion in... More »

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taxes • retirement • disability • deficit • unemployment • baby boom • Social Security • budget deficit • retirement benefits

OPINION

Live With It:
Retirement
Must Shrink

Longer lifespans, older population mean quitting age has to rise

Jun 26, 09 12:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - With people living longer and having fewer children in developed countries, the population is aging even as the workforce shrinks. And with retirement ages in the 60s, retirees are living longer on pensions. Those demographic shifts make a policy shift inevitable: we’re all going to have to work longer,... More »

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baby boomer • elderly • Japan • work • retirement • retirees • aging • baby boom • Hitachi • demographic trends

Docs Prep for Hurricane Ike Baby 'Boomlet'

Houston expects surge in births 9 months after storm cut power

May 12, 09 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Houston hospital is bracing for a baby boom due 9 months after Hurricane Ike cut power to the region for days, the Chronicle reports. “There’s about a 25% increase in the number of deliveries coming up in mid-June to mid-July,” said one doctor. Another physician is... More »

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Texas • hurricane • baby boom • baby boomlet • disaster • Hurricane Ike

US Births Hit Record High

2007 beats baby boom's biggest year; teen pregnancies rise for second year

Mar 18, 09 1:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - A record 4.31 million babies were born in the US in 2007, USA Today reports, topping the 4.30 million born in 1957, the height of the “baby boom”—although that year remains impressive because the overall population of the US was much smaller. Unmarried women bore... More »

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United States • birth rate • infant • birth • baby boom • teen births • teen pregnancy

 House Mess Blocks 
 Octuplet Homecoming 

Disappointed inspectors come up with list of necessary work

Mar 12, 09 5:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Octuplet mom Nadya Suleman has been given a list of work that must be done on her new four-bedroom home before her babies can leave the hospital, said disappointed inspectors from Kaiser Permanente, reports Radar. The news was a major setback for the hoped-for homecoming this week for two of... More »

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parenting • single parenting • baby boom • fertility treatment • multiple births • premature baby • Kaiser Permanente • octuplets • Nadya Suleman

(Newser) - A mini baby boom in the Netherlands has dark origins: The 44% jump in births in September came nine months after a 2-day blackout left most of the 24,000 residents of a small area in the eastern part of the country freezing. "They went to bed early to... More »

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Netherlands • baby • power outage • baby boom • Holland • blackout • Maasdriel

OPINION

Big Families Bring Big Rewards

One (non-celebrity) mother writes of the joys of her hefty brood

Oct 21, 08 6:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - With Angelina Jolie and Sarah Palin in the parenting spotlight, could big families be back in vogue again? Meagan Francis wonders just that in the Christian Science Monitor, but the mother of 4—soon to be 5—doesn't particularly care about being hip. Instead she writes about the rewards that... More »

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Angelina Jolie • pregnancy • women • family • baby boom • Census data • trend

 Minorities Surging to Majority

Changes will dramatically alter political landscape

Aug 14, 08 2:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - America's demographics will dramatically change by mid-century, with the white population slipping to a minority of 46% of Americans, according to projections  from the Census Bureau. Minority kids will make up 66% of the nation's population of children, reports the Washington Post. The number of Hispanics is expected to... More »

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Census Bureau • Brookings Institution • baby boom • Hispanic • Center for Immigration Studies • African-Americans • white people

Record US Births Top Boomer Peak

Fertility is lower but larger population adds up to baby bumper crop

Jul 18, 08 4:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - More Americans were born last year than in any other in history, reports ABC News. The 4,315,000 bundles of joy even top the Baby Boom at its peak. The expanding population is expected to put more pressure on scarce resources, but all those new taxpayers will help foot... More »

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baby boomer • fertility • baby • birth rate • birth • demographics • baby boom

 Gender and
 Race Aside,
 Age Pushes
 to Fore 

Boomers, seniors split on whether to support fellow oldster

Jun 15, 08 3:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - Now that a primary season fraught with racism and sexism has ended, the nation now gears up to face its general-election gremlin: ageism. While John McCain, 71, may joke that the primary qualification to be president is "to be very, very, very, very old," the New York Times... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • baby boomer • age • Obama 2008 • baby boom • McCain 2008 • age discrimination • senior citizens • the senior vote

 Cruise Threatens
 Baby Shop Over Leaks 

$400K spending spree on Suri?

May 25, 08 9:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Always-bristling actor Tom Cruise had his attorney read the riot act to a luxury Los Angeles baby boutique for allegedly leaking word that he and wife Katie Holmes went on a $400,000 buying binge after their daughter, Suri, was born. The owner of the Petit Tresor, who received a... More »

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parenting • Tom Cruise • Katie Holmes • baby • lawsuit • baby boom • Suri Cruise

China Hangs Onto 1-Child Policy

Country fears growth boom if rule is rescinded

Mar 10, 08 6:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - China will keep up its one-child policy over the next decade as nearly 200 million citizens reach child-bearing age, CNN reports. "Given such a large population base, there would be major fluctuations in population growth if we abandoned the one-child rule now," said the country's family planning minister,... More »

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China • fertility • population • birth rate • population control • baby boom • one child policy • overpopulation • fines

US Fertility Rate Bounces
to Boom Levels

Birth rates up across all age groups

Dec 20, 07 4:41 AM CST
(Newser) - Americans are having more babies than at any time since 1971, USA Today reports. The fertility rate hit an average of 2.1 babies for every woman in 2006, the highest since just before the Baby Boom ended. The rise in fertility puts America apart from other developed countries, many... More »

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fertility • America • baby • population • demographics • baby boom

Mile-High City Expects Baby Blizzard

Delivery rooms overflow nine months after major snow storms

Aug 28, 07 1:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nine months after a pair of blizzards shut in Denver residents for days, doctors are preparing for a flurry of baby deliveries, the local ABC affiliate reports. One hospital is expecting a 20% increase in deliveries this October—and doctors point to the "cabin fever" that swept the city... More »

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Denver • children • family • baby • baby boom • blizzard

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