The age shift: mature employees test workplace malleability.

Industrial Engineer | October 1, 2007| | Copyright

Age is gaining on us. According to the United States Census Bureau, in 2002, roughly 7 percent of the 6.2 billion global population was at least 65 years old. Projections suggest that by 2050, this figure will climb to nearly 17 percent, with those of age 65 outnumbering children age 14 and under. This shift is expected to be most pronounced in Eastern Europe and the developed world.

Narrowing our focus to the United States, the trends are no different than those found globally. The overall United States population will age predominately influenced by the baby boomer ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

KINGMAN BREWSTER, EX-AMBASSADOR TO BRITAIN AND YALE PRESIDENT, AT 69
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe ; Kingman Brewster Jr., president of Yale University from 1963 to 1977 and US ambassador to Great Britain from 1977...Phillips), and five children. FX6870;11/08 LDRISC;11/09,12:26 BREWST09 Caption: PHOTO Kingman Brewster Jr.
Kingman Brewster, former Yale president, U.S. envoy
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times ; Kingman Brewster Jr., president of Yale University from...near Oxford, England. He was 69. Mr. Brewster's presidency at Yale coincided with...university chaplain William Sloan Coffin Jr. after they visited Hanoi in 1965. In...
Action liberalism.(Eugene McCarthy: The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism)(The Fall of the House of Roosevelt: Brokers of Ideas and Power from FDR to LBJ)(The Guardians: Kingman Brewster, His Circle, and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The American Prospect ; ...University Press, 284 pages, $27.50 THE GUARDIANS: KINGMAN BREWSTER, HIS CIRCLE, AND THE RISE OF THE LIBERAL ESTABLISHMENT...Thurman Arnold--represented what Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., in his 1949 classic The Vital Center, called a...
Yale University's Poor Success in Enrolling Low-Income Students
Magazine article from: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education ; ...1960s, Yale president Kingman Brewster declared, "Yale will...Yale alumni, President Brewster granted an honorary degree to Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964. A huge step...occurred in 1965 when Brewster named R. Inslee "Inky...
A Reliable Source.(Occupation overview)
Magazine article from: Restaurants & Institutions ; ...Scott Hume, Editor-in-Chief Kingman Brewster Jr. was familiar with tumultuous...foodservice industry faces, but Brewster's counsel about the importance...his 1966 baccalaureate address, Brewster sent graduates into the real world...
Sons of privilege
Magazine article from: The Spectator ; ...the Forties, people like McGeorge Bundy, Kingman Brewster, John Lindsay, Cyrus Vance and Elliot...ruin the country, as William F. Buckley Jr put it in his seminal God and Man at Yale. Brewster, who was president of Yale and presided...
LOOKING BACK: Today In History March 5
Newspaper article from: New Haven Register ; 1967 Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr., a member of the presidential Draft Advisory Commission, calls...during a house burglary. The jury cleared Trooper Frederick Downs Jr. of all charges in his wounding of Earl Worrell, 20, in Higganum...
AULD LANG SYNE, 1988
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe ; ...John J. Williams, Bob McClory and Frank Roosevelt Jr. Carl Holman, Clarence Pendleton and Al Raby had different...pioneer psychiatrist Maida Solomon of Simmons, Yale's Kingman Brewster, Barney Troy of UMass, Harvard's John Otis Brew and...
Today in History, Dec. 7
Newspaper article from: New Haven Register ; ...court makes it probable that a conclusive finding on the controversial statute will be forthcoming. 1974 President Kingman Brewster Jr.'s goal of restoring financial stability at Yale by 1975 looks like an economic reality. The projected deficit...
Have a book with your sandwich at lunch?
Newspaper article from: New Haven Register ; ...and president of Grenough LLC. May 1: E.J. Dionne Jr.'s National Book Award nominee "Why Americans Hate...is the author of the 2004 book, "The Guardians: Kingman Brewster, His Circle and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment...

Find more facts and information related to the article "The age shift: mature employees test workplace ..."