Thomas Friedman Flunks Arithmetic Again, Demograhics Is the Cry of the Innumerate

While many of us learned arithmetic in third grade, apparently there are not enough people who retained this knowledge for the NYT to staff its opinion page. Hence they have Thomas Friedman warning us that the retirement of the baby boom cohort is going to devastate the country.


Now, if Friedman could do arithmetic he could turn to the Social Security trustees report and see that they project the ratio of workers to retirees to fall from 2.8 in 2012 to 2.0 in 2035. Is that scary?


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Published on July 28, 2012 19:44
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