{"id":32978,"date":"2012-06-11T02:22:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T02:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/forced_to_early_social_security_unemployed_pay_a_steep_price\/"},"modified":"2012-06-11T02:22:01","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T02:22:01","slug":"forced_to_early_social_security_unemployed_pay_a_steep_price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32978","title":{"rendered":"(NY Times) Forced to Early Social Security, Unemployed Pay a Steep Price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> This retirement oasis in the desert has long beckoned those who want to spin out their golden years playing golf and sitting by the pool in the arid sunshine.<\/p>\n<p>But for Clare Keany, who turned 62 last fall and cannot find work, it feels more like a prison. Just a few miles from the gated estates of corporate chieftains and Hollywood stars, Ms. Keany lives in a tiny mobile home, barely getting by on little more than $1,082 a month from Social Security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would rather be functioning and having a job somewhere,\u201d\u009d said Ms. Keany, whose pixie haircut, trim build and crinkling smile suggest someone much younger than her years. \u201cI really don\u2019t enjoy living like this. I\u2019ve got too much to do still.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/10\/business\/forced-to-retire-early-jobless-pay-a-steep-price.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This retirement oasis in the desert has long beckoned those who want to spin out their golden years playing golf and sitting by the pool in the arid sunshine. But for Clare Keany, who turned 62 last fall and cannot<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32978\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,103,149,597,593,673,596,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-aging-the-elderly","category-economy","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-personal-finance","category-social-security","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}