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"Silver Tsunami": Record Number of Americans Set to Turn 65 this Year
February 19, 2024

Introduction:

(Axios) A record number of Americans will turn 65 this year — about 4.1 million — the Wall Street Journal reports from an analysis by Jason Fichtner, chief economist at the Bipartisan Policy Center.

Why it matters: The surge of 65-year-old Baby Boomers (born 1946-1964) will continue through 2027. AARP calls it a "silver tsunami."

Reality check: "Today's 65-year-olds are redefining a milestone long associated with retirement parties and the end of productive years," the Journal notes.

• "They are wealthier and by many measures, healthier, and expected to live another 20 years."

• "I'm not tired, I'm healthy and I enjoy my job," Kathy Wheeler, who turns 65 this year, told AARP.

Read more here: https://www.axios.com/2024/02/19/us-ba ... -65-2024

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[firestar464]

People: "automation will displace everything!!!! think of the human workers!"

SK: bold of y'all to assume we have them

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More than a billion people obese worldwide, research suggests

9 hours ago

More than a billion people are living with obesity around the world, global estimates published in The Lancet show.

This includes about 880 million adults and 159 million children, according to 2022 data.

The highest rates are in Tonga and American Samoa for women and American Samoa and Nauru for men, with some 70-80% of adults living with obesity.

Out of some 190 countries, the UK ranks 55th highest for men and 87th for women.

The international team of scientists say there is an urgent need for major changes in how obesity is tackled.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-68436642

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More than a billion people obese worldwide, research suggests

It's a clear evidence there is something very wrong with current day human minds (and bodies as well, because we don't really need to accumulate so much in our bodies). I really hope this will be going down, no up, in the coming years and decades...

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[firestar464]

More than a billion people obese worldwide, research suggests

It's a clear evidence there is something very wrong with current day human minds (and bodies as well, because we don't really need to accumulate so much in our bodies). I really hope this will be going down, no up, in the coming years and decades...

bad food basically

[Tadasuke]

My predictions:
zero deaths from hunger by 2037 (worldwide)
zero deaths from transmitable diseases + considerable, non-trivial healthy life extension by 2048
zero deaths from bad diets and zero obesity by 2065 (worldwide)
zero deaths from genetic problems by 2094
zero deaths by cancer by 2099
humans no longer have any negative consequences of aging (no wearing out whatsoever) by 2104

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This is a very deceptive graphic. Many of the areas with low life expectancies are predominantly black, Hispanic, or Native American, and vote overwhelmingly for the Democrats.

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UK will be reliant on immigration for nearly 80 years due to falling birth rates

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Falling birth rates in the UK will leave the country reliant on immigration for the next 80 years, new research has suggested.

By 2100, Britain along with 198 countries will have fertility rates below what is necessary to sustain population size over time, according to a study published in The Lancet.

The analysis in the Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factors study predicts that sub-Saharan Africa will account for one in every two children born on the planet by the end of the century.

Meanwhile in Western Europe, the total fertility rate – the average number of children born to women of childbearing age – is predicted to be 1.44 in 2050, dropping to 1.37 in 2100.

In the UK, the total fertility rate was 2.19 in 1950, dropping to 1.85 in 1980 and then 1.49 in 2021. That is well below the rate of 2.1 needed to maintain a steady population without significant immigration.

https://www.independent.co.uk/world/pop ... 16198.html

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just watch racists cry lmao

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Census will offer Hispanic or Latino and Middle Eastern or North African race categories for the first time

Source: NBC News

March 28, 2024, 8:45 AM EDT

For the first time, Hispanic or Latino is listed as one race/ethnicity category and people of Middle Eastern or North African descent will have their own checkbox under new race and ethnicity standards adopted by the Biden administration.

Up to now, Hispanics had a two-part question for their identity: They were asked whether they were Hispanic or Latino and then asked to pick a race of white, Black, American Indian or some other race. The change now uses one question for race and ethnicity and allows people to check as many as apply to their identity. Each category has subcategories with examples that may apply and room for those that may not be listed.

The addition of a Middle Eastern or North African, or MENA, identifier would allow some 7 million to 8 million people to no longer have to identify as “white” or “other” on the census and other forms in which such data is collected.

The changes are only the second update by the federal government to categories for data on the American population. The update — the last was in 1997 — of standards used by the federal government for the census and other agencies is meant to better capture the expanding multicultural identity of the country.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/his ... rcna145376

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Republican policies!