Workforce to shrink as baby boomers retire, birth rates fall

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | June 27, 2015 | Natasha Lindstrom

[MinorityRepublican]

It's a national dilemma: Birth rates rose slightly in 2014 but are not high enough to sustain population levels, just as employers brace for the largest generation ever to retire in droves.

The oldest of 75 million baby boomers — born between 1946 and 1964 — turn 69 this year.

[Alberta's Child]

One of the problems with employee training is that you don't want YOUR employee to show up somewhere else as the one who with "exactly the perfect qualifications to magically appear somehow."

In some technical areas, my company doesn't like to train people unless we can get an employment commitment from them. It doesn't do a company any good to spend a lot of time and money training an employee, only to see him walk out the door and go to work for a competitor.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Seems to me the first programs to go should be those that weren’t funded by our own contributions.

Why, how would that help the RATs guarantee the votes of the global universe of entitlees?

[tbw2]

The fact that there is 15%-20% unemployment in the working age population (considering those who dropped out of the workforce, took disability after 2 years unemployed, retired at 55), there is NO need for immigration - there are too many Americans who need work.

[tbw2]

Mike Rowe is right - a lot of kids going to college to drop out or get a useless degree would be better off getting a job in the skilled trades - trained faster and paid better.