The oldest of the baby boomers came of age in the 1960s and are beginning to retire. Baby boomers are a giant portion of the population — 78 million people, by one estimate.
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Pilot Reports Seeing Drone In Sky Near JFK
The pilot of an Alitalia pilot flying into New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport told controllers Monday afternoon that he had spotted “a drone aircraft” 1,500 feet high in the sky and approximately 5 miles west of the airport.
Scientists Are The New Kings (Or At Least Secretaries) At Energy Department
With President Obama naming Ernest Moniz to be the nation’s next energy secretary, he continued a relatively recent trend of putting scientists atop a part of the federal bureaucracy once overseen by political types.
Napolitano: Airport Lines Have Seen ‘150 to 200 Percent’ Increase Since Sequester
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the across-the-board spending cuts that went into effect on Friday are already causing headaches at the nation’s airports.
The Sequester That Wasn’t Meant To Happen Begins
With President Obama’s signing of the order to commence the sequester spending cuts of $85 billion from this fiscal year’s federal budget, what was once unthinkable is now hard reality.
Obama Taps Nominees For EPA, Budget Office And Energy Department
President Obama on Monday morning nominated Gina McCarthy, Ernest Moniz and Sylvia Matthews Burwell.