Chart Of The Day

Catherine Rampell finds a chart on the composition of the American population over the next four decades:

By 2030 — shown by the bars in the middle-shade of green —
entire baby boom generation will have moved into the ranks of
elderly.

This has bigger consequences than just a longer line for the early birdspecial. It means that a smaller portion of the population will beworking, and inversely that a larger portion of the population will bedepending on government services (and/or...