Tuesday, February 17, 2015

A Graph on Age and Labor

There has never been a lower percentage of American men in the workforce. What is even more stunning - given the daily avalanche of "buy-and-hold" for a "safe-retirement" holding hands with your loved on as you stroll the beach at sunset - the percent of Americans aged 65 years or older has almost doubled in the last 30 years and is near its highest since the mid '60s. So much for that dream retirement...

 (From Zero Hedge)


This can be read a number of ways: Less men working, more women working, older men needing to work, older men harder to replace. But it is a change.

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