10-02-2016, 09:48 PM
(10-02-2016, 07:22 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: A good assumption is that Boomers will live longer than Silents did.
Highly doubtful. Life expectancy has been falling for a decade among working class whites and is now falling for whites overall - enough so that it's stagnant for the overall population.
Quote:Life expectancy fell for the U.S. white population in 2014 and remained flat for all population groups combined, according to data released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
http://www.wsj.com/articles/life-expecta...1461124861
That neatly coincides with the shift from Silents to Boomers of the peak death years.