baby boom
a period of sharp increase in the birthrate, as that in the U.S. following World War II.
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Before that, you can see the big surge in attendance that accompanied the emergence of the baby boom.
The evolution of education in the United States is more complicated than you think | Philip Bump | September 8, 2021 | Washington PostThat was the lowest number of births since 1979 and the largest one-year drop in births, in percentage terms, since 1965, the year the baby boom ended.
Pandemic will push U.S. mortality up through 2023, new government report predicts | Aaron Gregg, Lenny Bernstein | August 31, 2021 | Washington PostThough the Biscayne Bay site seems to be experiencing a hammerhead shark baby boom, officially designating the area as a nursery will require more monitoring.
A hammerhead shark baby boom near Florida hints at a historic nursery | Lesley Evans Ogden | August 2, 2021 | Science NewsThe baby boom is nearing or at retirement, and we need people to fill many of their jobs and bolster the economy.
A 10-year immigration ban? Here’s the impact that would have on the U.S. population. | Philip Bump | July 30, 2021 | Washington PostStarting with the baby boom period from 1946 to 1964, many middle- and upper-class women had increased opportunities to get an education beyond high school, which had typically been the end of women’s formal education.
It was in this buoyant baby boom atmosphere that my parents grew up.
So far the baby boom had only a mild, Playboy cartoon-caption case of the ironic.
P.J. O’Rourke on Grabbing the Keys to Happiness | P. J. O’Rourke | January 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAny good baby boom boy my age can testify that the oomph went out of American family car design in 1963.
P.J. O’Rourke on Grabbing the Keys to Happiness | P. J. O’Rourke | January 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFull disclosure: As someone born in 1963, I am at the very tail end of the baby boom.
JFK Still Dead, Baby Boomers Still Self-Absorbed | Nick Gillespie | November 6, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBaby-boom Democrats came to see America as a center-right nation.
Hillary Clinton’s Big Challenges in 2016 Will Come From the Left | Peter Beinart | August 6, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe retirement of the baby boom generation will put unprecedented strains on the Federal government.
State of the Union Addresses of George W. Bush | George W. BushWith the number of elderly Americans set to double by 2030, the baby boom will become a senior boom.
Seven years from now, the baby boom generation will begin to claim Social Security benefits.
The retirement of the baby boom generation will put unprecedented strains on the federal government.
British Dictionary definitions for baby boom
a sharp increase in the birth rate of a population, esp the one that occurred after World War II: Also called (esp Brit): the bulge
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