Tag: middle age

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For young adults who don’t have a college degree, the career-oriented courses they took in high school give them a leg up in the job market. But do the benefits of higher-quality employment after high school continue into middle age? The first known U.S. study to examine the long-term impact of high school curricula finds…

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Americans’ retirement outlook has gone from bleak to bleaker. The unemployment caused by COVID-19 has pushed up the share of working-age households not able to afford their current standard of living in retirement from 50 percent to 55 percent, according to a new analysis by the Center for Retirement Research, which sponsors this blog. T…