BabyBoomer

With home prices and their 401(k) accounts falling, Baby Boomers can forget about retiring to the beach in Florida and playing golf all day. Instead, they're worrying about paying the bills. The top financial concern for people 45 and older is now paying for food, shelter and other basic needs,...

For some people, the world is divided racially or economically, along gender lines or by political borders. For me, the big divider, at least in the United States, has always been generational. I was born in 1971, smack in the middle of what would later be called Generation X. I was part of dropoff...