Aging of America to force changes in the workplace

URBANA – America's population is aging, and the nation's employers need to deal with it, a Naperville consultant says.

The baby-boomer generation is beginning to retire, and that ultimately will leave the United States with a deficit of younger workers, Bill Forssander said at a Champaign County Chamber of Commerce breakfast Thursday at Urbana's Holiday Inn.

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