Compromising Pictures of Paul Krugman

Quote: Tanko

Raise the retirement age to 70.

Baby boomers are dying younger than their parents, and their kids are in worse shape than them.

'Baby Boomers Have Shorter Lifespans'

'Americans are dying faster Millennials, too'

WTF
Bunch of gobblygook
Here is the reality
It goes up every year for the last 100 years
The last years have a light increase but still an increase then say 0.25 for a lot of years in the past

The current life expectancy for U.S. in 2023 is 79.11 years, a 0.08% increase from 2022.
The life expectancy for U.S. in 2022 was 79.05 years, a 0.08% increase from 2021.
The life expectancy for U.S. in 2021 was 78.99 years, a 0.08% increase from 2020.
The life expectancy for U.S. in 2020 was 78.93 years, a 0.08% increase from 2019.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/life-expectancy

Quote: terapined

Quote: Tanko

Raise the retirement age to 70.

Baby boomers are dying younger than their parents, and their kids are in worse shape than them.

'Baby Boomers Have Shorter Lifespans'

'Americans are dying faster Millennials, too'

WTF
Bunch of gobblygook
Here is the reality
It goes up every year for the last 100 years
The last years have a light increase but still an increase then say 0.25 for a lot of years in the past

The current life expectancy for U.S. in 2023 is 79.11 years, a 0.08% increase from 2022.
The life expectancy for U.S. in 2022 was 79.05 years, a 0.08% increase from 2021.
The life expectancy for U.S. in 2021 was 78.99 years, a 0.08% increase from 2020.
The life expectancy for U.S. in 2020 was 78.93 years, a 0.08% increase from 2019.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/life-expectancy

That source differs a lot from data from the CDC.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/20220831.htm

Quote:

Life expectancy at birth in the United States declined nearly a year from 2020 to 2021, according to new provisional data from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). That decline – 77.0 to 76.1 years – took U.S. life expectancy at birth to its lowest level since 1996. The 0.9 year drop in life expectancy in 2021, along with a 1.8 year drop in 2020, was the biggest two-year decline in life expectancy since 1921-1923.

Also, life expectancy at age 65 would be more relevant than life expectancy at birth for SS consideration.