{"id":1042659,"date":"2010-07-15T08:17:40","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T08:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/a-hint-of-things-to-come\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T16:59:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T20:59:07","slug":"a-hint-of-things-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/longevity-medicine\/a-hint-of-things-to-come.php","title":{"rendered":"A Hint of Things to Come?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was struck by an article on the website of the San Francisco Chronicle that reports for the first time that workers age 65 and over outnumber employed teenagers: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/27opz5h<\/a><\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0There are a variety of factors at work here,\u00a0including unfortunately the devastating effect of the recession on the work opportunities for young people.\u00a0 The\u00a0impact of the economy on\u00a0investment portfolios and real estate values have undoubtedly caused people over age 65 to\u00a0reconsider their need to continue to work.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There has been speculation for some time that some aging Baby Boomers would prefer to continue to work past normal retirement age.\u00a0 A variety of news reports coming out of\u00a0Washington\u00a0over the past several weeks also indicate that deficit reduction negotiations that are likely to begin in the fall may lead to increases in the\u00a0normal retirement age\u00a0within the Social Security program sometime in the future.\u00a0 There’s a strong likelihood that the\u00a0newly identified workforce trend\u00a0marks the beginning of a tendency to see employment\u00a0as a key component for financing longevity regardless of whether the trend is fostered by personal preference or by retirement plan formulas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was struck by an article on the website of the San Francisco Chronicle that reports for the first time that workers age 65 and over outnumber employed teenagers: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/27opz5h.\u00a0\u00a0There<\/a> are a variety of factors at work here,\u00a0including unfortunately the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-longevity-medicine"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}