Duty Free examines ageism, the care crisis, and economic insecurity in America. Follow 75-year-old Rebecca and son Sian-Pierre on the trip of a lifetime, one bucket list adventure at a time.
What online and mobile money tools are doing wrong and how to improve them for people of all ages.
A look at the present and future age divide for working from home.
By Diane Eastabrook (Read all of Next Avenue’s COVID-19 coverage geared toward keeping older generations informed, safe and prepared.) In the DC Comics town of Metropolis, the townsfolk had Superman to protect them from villains like Lex Luthor, Brainiac and Darkseid. But…
The coronavirus outbreak, we know, is a health crisis and a national economic crisis. It’s also, for many Americans, a personal-finance crisis.
(Editor’s Note: This story is part of a partnership between Chasing the Dream and Next Avenue.) By Richard Eisenberg Getting a job in your 50s or 60s certainly isn’t easy, but new and somewhat surprising employment data suggests that prospects and pay are…
By: Richard Eisenberg (Editor’s Note: This story is part of a partnership between Next Avenue and Chasing the Dream, a public media initiative on poverty and opportunity.) Boomers and Gen Xers are now the most “rent-burdened” Americans, according to a new…
Editor’s Note: This story is part of a partnership between Chasing the Dream and Next Avenue. By Kerry Hannon It’s hard not to get a little down about the financial challenges many women over 50 face. I heard a lot…
Editor’s Note: This story is part of a partnership between Chasing the Dream and Next Avenue. By: Richard Eisenberg In his State of the Union address, President Trump said “there has never been a better time to start living the…
(Editor’s Note: This story is part of a partnership between Chasing the Dream and Next Avenue.) By Richard Eisenberg In her powerful new book, Nomadland, award-winning journalist Jessica Bruder reveals the dark, depressing and sometimes physically painful life of a…
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.…
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…