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The cost of Europe’s baby-boomers
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A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. Europe's baby-boomers built vast wealth through cheap housing and generous state pensions. A shrinking generation of young workers is now being forced to foot the bill.
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- Baby-boomers
- Welfare state
- Demographic economics
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