Tag: deaths of despair
If not, even an 80- to 90-year life needs rethinking. This post was written by Harry Margolis, a new contributor to the Squared Away Blog. In their book, The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity (published in 2016), the psychologist Lynda Gratton and economist Andrew J. Scott predict that living a century will soon become t…
Long before COVID-19 upended our world, the lives of lower-paid, less-educated workers had already been coming apart. “It’s the other epidemic, but it’s an epidemic that’s been occurring under the radar for a long time,” Anne Case said in her keynote address for the annual meeting of the Retirement and Disability Research Consortium, which was…