Sloan Foundation Noted in Article on What Could Help Americans Work More Years
Millions of American workers in their 50s and 60s want, or need, to keep working past the traditional retirement age of 65 — either part-time or full-time. But after attending Columbia University’s 2017 Age Boom Academy program for journalists, Exploring Inequities in Health, Work and Retirement, I’ve learned how difficult (if not impossible) that can be for many of them.
But I also learned from the international Age Boom Academy experts that there are a few things employers, the U.S. government and older workers could do to make staying employed for additional years of our longer lives a more likely reality. The time is right: By 2020, one in four American workers will be over 55.
The adaptations will take some doing, though. “Institutions have not yet caught up with the demographic transitions in society,” said Kathleen Christensen, director of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Working Longer program. . .