Tag: COVID-19
In a Post-COVID world, are older people working? Sometimes, on a lazy summer afternoon, I like to go into the Current Population Survey – the monthly survey that yields the government’s estimate of the unemployment rate – and just tabulate away. What can I say, my social life just isn’t what it used to b…
In a recent podcast, I had the opportunity to speak with Marylou Sudders, the Secretary of Health and Human Services for Massachusetts throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. But COVID was only part of what she faced during her eight-year term. Sudders pointed out that Massachusetts has an older population than most states and by 2050 almost a…
