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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.

Americans: Getting By, But Not Getting Ahead

August 1, 2017

By Richard Eisenberg, Money & Work Editor, Next Avenue Despite a growing economy and the lowest U.S. unemployment rate in 16 years, things aren’t looking up for many Americans — financial fragility is especially an issue for people with low…