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Originally Posted by kane
I saw the other day that 53% of the all the jobs being created in this country are lower paying jobs.
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I just looked that stat up. It was from May of this year. But what it actually said was:
"Over the decade, the number of jobs held by older workers increased by 6.6 million. Over half of this increase - 3.4 million or 52% - was in bad jobs, defined by low wages"
So in the last TEN years more older workers have held jobs (probably because we are living longer and longer and people are healthier in their old age). And of THOSE jobs...52% are low wage.
Which means that they are using them to supplement their Social Security.
You can look at it two ways:
1. "Oh those poor OLD people still having to work at Walmart"
or
2. Older people who don't WANT to sit in a nursing home and want to be out amongst people doing work and feeling useful.