Moving and Retirement
Beating the Brain Drain: States Focus on Retaining Older Workers; Finding Replacements Won’t Be Easy
California's chief of workforce development, is trying different tactics to keep senior workers on the job: offering a flexible work schedule, promoting work-life balance and creating the first government-wide employee management survey to assess the needs of workers. The idea is to find out who is leaving — and why. more »
Elaine Soloway's Rookie Widow Series: Double Dating With My Mother; A Resting Place In The Garden of Eden; From Third Wheel to Driver's Seat
Elaine Soloway writes: I won't change my appearance or wardrobe to hook a guy. In my earlier single stage, I wore 3-inch heels, clothing I deemed alluring, and shopped at Victoria's Secret for the 'just in case" dates. Now, I refuse to dye my grey hair, get Botox or plastic surgery, or don anything that doesn’t stretch. more »
Pew's Analysis of Growth in Personal Income Shows Uneven US Recovery
States have recovered at different paces. Adjusted for inflation, personal income in 21 states has grown faster than in the nation as a whole since the start of the recession. Only in mid-2015 did the final state — Nevada — recover its personal-income losses and return to its pre-recession level. more »
The Outlook, Uncertainty, and Monetary Policy; Janet Yellen's Speech to the Economic Club of New York
"The labor market has added an average of almost 230,000 jobs a month over the past three months. In addition, the unemployment rate has edged down further, more people are joining the workforce as the prospects for finding jobs have improved, and the employment-to-population ratio has increased by almost 1/2 percentage point. The housing market continues its gradual recovery, and fiscal policy at all levels of government is now modestly boosting economic activity after exerting a considerable drag in recent years." more »