Women now outnumber men in the workforce, and the population is aging as well, Betances said. If it continues at this pace, the ratio will be 1 to 1 by 2030. The shrinking talent pool presents more opportunities for foreign-born workers. But if Congress doesn t agree to a bailout plan soon, the Social Security System will go broke in 16 years, right when many of the 75 million Baby Boomers will be retiring in droves. That means that there won t be enough wage earners from the Baby Bust generation contributing to the System to be able to sustain the deluge of retirees.
People are living longer, medicine is on the cutting edge.
Sometime in the near future, it will not be uncommon to live to be 120 years. Doctors will crack the genetic code and conquer diseases such as cancer. They ll be able to replace cancer-causing damaged DNA with healthy genes, probably by a pill or injections. But all of this technology and the rapidly changing demographics can create conflict and stress. The U.S. of the 21st century will be far different from the one we know today or the one that our parents knew in their youth.