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Idaho’s 65 and over population is booming. That’s going to cost us all more, but pay us more, too.

July 3, 2017 /

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Idaho’s population continues to grow and age faster than the rest of the country, and that has big implications for wages, jobs and the state economy, as Baby Boomers bump up into retirement age and, seemingly, stream into the Gem State.

The latest data from mid-2016 shows that more than half of the nearly 116,000 Idahoans added since the 2010 census are over 65. They represent 52 percent of the total. The 25-44 cohort was the next largest contingent, at a little over 23 percent of the total; 45- to 64-year-olds were 15.6 percent.

BY BILL DENTZER
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