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The unprecedented aging crisis that’s about to hit China

Clip: 8/1/2016 | 9m 11s

China is headed toward a severe workforce crisis and retirement cost cash crunch.

China has the largest Baby Boom generation in the world. But now just years away from a mass retirement, that country is headed toward a severe workforce crisis and retirement cost cash crunch. Due to the country’s one-child policy from 1978 until 2015, the younger generation poised to take over is relatively small. What’s the solution? Judy Woodruff reports in conjunction with the Atlantic.

08/01/2016 | Rating NR

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