A Record 22.2 Percent of of U.S. Workers Are 55 or Older

``Shouldn't those boomers be retiring? They don't seem to think so. As this third chart shows, two decades ago, the share of people 55 and up who were still in the labor force was just 30 percent. But as boomers have started entering that cohort, the participation rate has jumped to 40 percent.''