This week, when a retired schoolteacher from New Jersey became the first baby boomer to apply online for early retirement benefits from Social Security, it was the stuff of national news.
After all, nearly 80 million Americans were born from 1946 to 1964, and they are expected to flood the Social Security system in the coming decades.
Among those who took notice of this week’s milestone was a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor named John Witte.