{"id":53268,"date":"2016-02-08T02:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T02:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/lat_many_us_elderly_are_on_the_road_way_past_retirement_and_chasing_jobs\/"},"modified":"2016-02-08T02:00:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T02:00:43","slug":"lat_many_us_elderly_are_on_the_road_way_past_retirement_and_chasing_jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53268","title":{"rendered":"(LAT) Many US elderly are on the road, way past retirement and chasing jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Dolores Westfall]&#8230;endures what is for many aging Americans an unforgiving economy. Nearly one-third of U.S. heads of households ages 55 and older have no pension or retirement savings and a median annual income of about $19,000.<\/p>\n<p>A growing proportion of the nation\u2019s elderly are like Westfall: too poor to retire and too young to die.<\/p>\n<p>Many rely on Social Security and minimal pensions, in part because half of all workers have no employer-backed retirement plans. Eight in 10 Americans say they will work well into their 60s or skip retirement entirely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article58888258.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Dolores Westfall]&#8230;endures what is for many aging Americans an unforgiving economy. Nearly one-third of U.S. heads of households ages 55 and older have no pension or retirement savings and a median annual income of about $19,000. A growing proportion of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53268\">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":[39,40,50,103,209,149,600,597,151,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-aging-the-elderly","category-americau-s-a","category-economy","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-politics-in-general","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53268","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=53268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}