https://boazsobrado.com/tags/economics/Recent content in Economics on Boaz Sobrado's WebsiteHugo -- gohugo.ioen&copy; 2026 <a href="https://www.boazsobrado.com/">Boaz Sobrado</a>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 09:00:00 +0000https://boazsobrado.com/blog/2026/11/01/when-boomers-were-young-the-young-came-first.-now-they-are-old-the-old-do./Sun, 01 Nov 2026 09:00:00 +0000https://boazsobrado.com/blog/2026/11/01/when-boomers-were-young-the-young-came-first.-now-they-are-old-the-old-do./This post was co-written with Claude Code. When the baby boomers were starting work, the poorest people in America were the old. In the late 1960s, 27% of Americans over 65 lived below the official poverty line, against 16% of children. Today the boomers are retiring, and the order has flipped. Poverty among the over-65s has fallen to 10%. Among children it is 15%, and for most of the past forty years it was closer to 20%.