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Dog Days of Summer

September 5, 2011 | Phyllis Goldberg, Nourishing Relationships

If you’re reading this post today, there’s a good chance you’ve decided not to travel this Labor Day weekend. Was it the desire to nest close to home with your family and enjoy the final dog days of summer or the extra expenses involved in a trip? This…

Elder Unemployment

May 9, 2011 | Ronni Bennett, ChangingAging Contributor

Superficially, the latest unemployment numbers showed some good news for workers age 55 and older: 203,000 more of them were employed in April than in March and the unemployment rate for the group remained steady at 6.5 percent. The improvement…

Am I Taking Someone’s Job?

December 8, 2010 | Kavan Peterson, Editor, ChangingAging.org

Judy Kugel recently asked herself a tough question at The 70-Something Blog: The unemployment rate is dreadful. People are losing homes and struggling to put food on the table. Dreams are put on hold. Unemployed workers in their fifties fear that they will never work again. And then there is me, working full time and […]

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