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Getting ready for aging baby boomers in Montana

April 24, 2008 /

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Bear Paw Development Corporation is a private non-profit organization created for the purpose of administering programs to help improve regional economic conditions in Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips Counties and the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian Reservations.

Annoying as it is to be becoming part of the problem with such unseemly haste, one still must applaud a study on the financial implications of the aging of Montana.

Two interim legislative committees are being asked to authorize a look by Montana State University economics professors into what’s in store as the state’s baby boomers trudge on into codgerhood.

And trudging on they are. According to a 2004 report by the Ninth District of the Federal Reserve Bank, Montana ranked 14th among the states in the population of people at least 65 years old, and census projections have Montana ranking third or fourth nationally by 2020.

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