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    Feb 25, 2022 3 minutes

    Time to lure back the boomers

    Helaine Olen

    The Washington Post

    The “Great Retirement of the baby boomers” has the power to “upend” the US economy, says Helaine Olen. Goldman Sachs estimates that more than half of those who left the workforce during the pandemic are over 55. Employers are dependent on this “outsize” cohort, and their retirement is contributing to worker shortages in sectors from nursing to hospitality. This is a “significant reversal”. Pre-pandemic, many Americans said they wanted to work “well past the

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