Generation X

When Tiffany Fernandez needs to miss a day of work, she doesn't call her boss. The 17-year-old, an assistant to a Miami clothing designer, doesn't email her either. She sends her a text. Fernandez is typical of her fellow members of Generation Z, who were born in the early to mid-1990s and are entering the ...

Baby Boomers make up more of the U.S. work force -- 38 percent -- than any other age group, and even with the recession forcing many to delay retirement a few years, the first Boomers will turn 65 in 2011 and will begin retiring. That will be the beginning of a retirement boom over the next five years, giving ...