Daily Show: Getting Old and Small
Understanding what motivates and inspires Boomers and Gen X since 2022
“It’s the strangest thing: A lot of people as they get older get more protected and terrified. My desire is to keep throwing myself into things. My parenting, my relationship, my work. I’ll take the pain. I’ll take the joy. Because the feeling makes me go, I’m in life. It’s an enormous gift, this life.”
— Nicole Kidman
Holy crap, look how small and old 'The Daily Show's' audience has gotten
When Jon Stewart left "The Daily Show" in 2015, he had a modest but meaningful audience on cable TV. When he comes back next month, he'll find that in his absence, the show's audience has gotten much, much smaller. And much, much older. "The Daily Show's" overall audience has shrunk by 75% — from 2.2 million viewers a night to 570,000. The age of the audience has skyrocketed because younger viewers are barely watching at all. When Stewart left, the median age of his audience was 48.2 years old. Now it's 63.3. It's not news that TV audiences have been shrinking for years and that younger people are increasingly tuned out of TV. And that the trend affects all kinds of viewing, but particularly in late-night. You'd see similar struggles if you plotted the audience for Jimmy Fallon or Jimmy Kimmel.
At 116, she has outlived generations of loved ones. But her entire town has become family.
When the nation’s oldest person has a birthday, a California community makes sure to celebrate.
When Edith Ceccarelli was born in February 1908, Theodore Roosevelt was president, Oklahoma had just become the nation’s 46th state and women did not yet have the right to vote. At 116, Ms. Ceccarelli is the oldest known person in the United States and the second oldest on Earth. She has lived through two World Wars, the advent of the Ford Model T — and the two deadliest pandemics in American history.
Why older workers are having trouble getting hired
What does “overqualified” really mean in hiring?
Older Americans are becoming a bigger slice of the population as the Baby Boomers age, and they’re staying in the workforce longer than their predecessors did. People 75 and up are the fastest growing segment of the workforce, according to recent analysis from the Pew Research Center. Keeping more people in the workforce is generally a good thing for the economy, but having four generations in the workforce together can feel crowded. Young people have long complained about their elders not making space for them to advance. That may still be happening. But, at this point, it’s the younger generations that are moving into management roles and doing a lot of the hiring, and not always giving older candidates a shot.
“I don’t have any problem with going gray, I really don’t,” she said. “But it’s this feeling of society’s just kind of discounting me and discounting the totality maybe of my experience, and that experience is a bad thing. And I don’t understand that. In my mind that’s a good thing.”
Boomers are not moving out of their big homes. Here’s why
After 33 years and four children, Baby Boomers Marta and Octavian Dragos say they feel trapped in what was once their dream home in El Cerrito, California. Both over 70, the Dragos are empty nesters, and like many of their generation, they’re trying to figure out how to downsize from their 3,000-square-foot, five-bedroom home. “We are here in a huge house with no family nearby, trying to make a wise decision, both financially and for our well-being,” said Dragos, a retired teacher. But selling and downsizing isn’t easy, appealing or even financially advantageous for many homeowners like the Dragos family. Many Boomers whose homes have surged in value now face massive capital gains tax bills when they sell. This is a kind of tax on the profit you make when selling an investment or an asset, like a home, that has increased in value. Plus, smaller homes or apartments in the neighborhoods they’ve come to love are rare. And with current prices and mortgage rates so high, there is often a negligible cost difference between their current home and a smaller one.
Baby boomers are approaching 'peak burden' on the economy
A time bomb has been ticking in the US.
It's the baby boomers, who as they age are approaching their "peak burden" years in regard to their drag on the economy and the resources of younger generations. Boomers have already gotten tons of flak from younger people over the economy they've left Gen Zers, millennials, and Generation X to inherit. By the end of this year, all boomers — defined by the US Census Bureau as being born from 1946 to 1964 — will be 60 or older. This means the youngest boomers are rapidly approaching retirement, and a bigger retirement population means more of a drag on the US economy, a burden that Barclays senior economist Jonathan Millar expects to stretch on for the next 20 years.
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