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.
By Andrea King Collier (Editor’s Note: This story is part of a partnership between Chasing the Dream and Next Avenue.) Barbara Jones, of Detroit, was a happy woman when she got an unexpected $6,000 bonus from her job last year.…
6 ways to address financial issues in your life and reduce stress
Why this man is doing it and how he's dealing with his critical inner self
Why reducing stress and getting better sleep and nutrition can help
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Expert views at a Town Hall on re-skilling the mid-career workforce
They may suit people over 50 looking for part-time or full-time work
This could be a good time to do it, if you know what you're getting into
Women, in particular Millennials, are picking up "side hustles" to afford their living expenses, CNN Money reports. Everything from freelance writing, to dog walking to selling clothes online is fair game in an economy where one full-time job does not…
By Richard Eisenberg, Money & Work Editor, Next Avenue Have you seen Elizabeth White's TEDx talk yet? It’s based on White’s book, Fifty-five Unemployed and Faking Normal, which sprang out of a Next Avenue essay she wrote in 2016. Her TEDx talk has…