No, this goes back years and years. I’m 58 and those were the dates I’d always read, heard and discussed by economists and various government officials over the years since the term “baby boomers” was created. I’m not imagining it and I’m not remembering it wrong. Your dates are newer and probably reflect a government effort to make the social security burden that boomers will bring appear to be greater than what it originally was, based on the 1945-1960 dates, so they can more easily justify raising taxes. The reality probably is that those costs are higher due to all the lowlife parasites and immigrants on SSI and SSA that they hadn’t considered some years back.
Anyway, there are much more important things going on at the moment.
Nice talking to you.
My numbers are not newer, the generations are defined by birth date going back for many generations, these are the same (official) numbers that I have always heard and they have to be or the boomers would have been the first generation defined as a 15 year period, for one thing those born in 1945 have always been the “silent” generation of 1925 to 1945 (although not always labeled by that term0.