Washington Post Summary

This article from the Washington Post discusses how the job market for people over fifty-five year olds “has not improved for this set of people.” For older people who have been laid off, but are not quite ready to retire are having difficulty finding jobs. The Author of the article Rodney Brooks points out that “even for a much lower-paying job” middle aged people would “be competing with people half [their] age.” People want to work later in life because they probably have not saved as much money as they would have liked. The article says that “fifty-seven percent of retirees reported having less than $25,000 in savings and investments, not counting their homes or traditional pensions.” However, people struggle with finding jobs or keeping