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From finding and starting a new job or career to financial planning during retirement, older Americans face a unique set of challenges when it comes to financial security, jobs, and opportunity. In partnership with Next Avenue, public media’s first and only national journalism service for America’s booming older population, find stories here about older Americans, jobs, poverty, and economic opportunity.

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November 9, 2017 | Next Avenue
(Editor’s Note: This story is part of a partnership between Chasing the Dream and Next Avenue.) By Richard Eisenberg An anthropology professor might not be the first person you’d think of to research the ways job hunters look for work…
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November 1, 2017 | Next Avenue
(Editor’s Note: This story is part of a partnership between Chasing the Dream and Next Avenue.) By Nancy Collamer  The majority of the U.S. workforce will be freelancers by 2027. That mind-blowing prediction comes from the new Freelancing in America:…
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October 27, 2017 | Next Avenue
(Editor’s Note: This story is part of a partnership between Chasing the Dream and Next Avenue.) By Richard Eisenberg As Next Avenue has noted, there are huge wealth and income disparities between blacks and whites in America (average wealth of…
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October 16, 2017 | Next Avenue
(Editor’s Note: This story is part of a partnership between Chasing the Dream and Next Avenue.) By: Richard Eisenberg Boomers and the American Dream After reading this article, take the American Dream Score quiz here. So, back to the boomers:…
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October 13, 2017 | Next Avenue
(Editor’s Note: This story is part of a partnership between Chasing the Dream and Next Avenue.) Elizabeth White’s American Dream Story By: Richard Eisenberg Here’s early-wave boomer Elizabeth White on her American Dream story: “That can’t be right” was my…