Related media Travel deals We are living longer, something to celebrate. The average life expectancy was about 62 years in 1935 when President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, and it's now nearly 79 years. And, as in many things, the baby boomers are at the center of another revolution: unretirement. Many boomers have the ability and the desire to work well into the traditional retirement years. For example, 72 percent of pre-retirees age 50 and over in a survey published in June by Merrill Lynch and the Age Wave consulting firm said they wanted to work in their retirement. Yet the specter of an aging population haunts America. The leading edge of the boomer generation is...
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