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Kids in school are taught that Edison invented the lightbulb. In fact, he took credit for the work of a group of scientists who developed the concept. Shame on you, Tom.
A sleep schedule means that parents and caregivers know (within reason, because kids gonna be kids) that at 7:30 p.m. every night, they will be able to turn off.
The term baby boom refers to a noticeable increase in the birth rate. The post-World War II population increase was described as a "boom" by various newspaper reporters, including Sylvia F. Porter in a column in the May 4, 1951, edition of the New York Post, based on the increase of 2,357,000 in the population of the U.S. from 1940 to 1950.
The Baby Boomer generation was in their peak working years when the U.S. Dollar had its strongest purchasing power. In 1968, the federal minimum wage was $1.60, which is equivalent to $14.50 in 2023.
From a demographic point of view, the labor shortage in the United States during the 2020s is inevitable due to the sheer size of the aging Baby Boomers. [98] [99] As the oldest economically active cohort, [99] the Baby Boomers comprised about a quarter of the U.S. workforce in 2018. [100]
Baby Boomers are often tied to the Woodstock Music Festival, but many were children when the famed 1969 concerts took place. - Owen Franken/Corbis/Getty Images
Also, by 1955, a majority of U.S. households had at least one television set, [10] and so unlike Leading-Edge Boomers born from 1946 to 1953, many members of Generation Jones (trailing-edge boomers) have never lived in a world without television—similar to how many members of Generation Z (1997—2012) [11] [12] have never lived in a world ...
Baby boomers filled their homes with possessions. Their children are struggling to figure out what to keep — and where to put it all.