Three months after President Obama’s inauguration, one phrase from his speech on the steps of the Capitol comes back to me often: “The time has come to set aside childish things.” That line, which quotes loosely from 1 Corinthians:13 in the New Testament, refers to our collective need to wake up to the realities and [...] [...more]
Barbara Parks stumbled onto a way to do well by doing good. Divorced in her early 60s and ready for something new, she drove from her home in Minnesota to resettle in San Francisco, where her two sisters lived. She expected to look for work in career counseling, the field she’d worked in for 15 [...] [...more]
The economic recovery bill to be signed this week by President Obama doesn’t really target much specific relief toward older Americans (details here), but it does include a modest boost to job training efforts for low income individuals. The bill adds $120 million to the Senior Community Service Employment program (SCSEP), the nation’s only workforce [...] [...more]
The Wall Street Journal Encore section last weekend profiled retirees who have headed back to work as the economic slump hit their pocketbooks. The article has an accompanying video interview (see below) with one retirement job-taker, legal secretary Jan Cone. Cone first tried a job as a retail sales clerk but found the stand-up work [...] [...more]
The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry, and so it goes with retirement in 2009. The brutal stock market decline and frozen real estate market have wrecked the retirement plans of many Americans, who now find themselves back in the job market looking for ways to supplement their income. It’s no easy [...] [...more]
