6. By 2030, the older populations will more than
double, to where 1 in 5 people in this country will
be 65 and older!
7. Life expectancy is increasing so fast that most of
the babies born today will live to be at least 103!
8. In 1950, 78% of US
households were
comprised of married
couples, compared to
only 52% in 2000
9. In 1950, the average American parents made less than $2,000 a year.
Two-thirds of them had never gone beyond grade school and they
spent less than $7 a year on education
21. The computer in your cell phone today
is a million times cheaper… a
thousand times more powerful…and a
hundred thousand times smaller than
the computer at MIT in 1965