Tag: work

Two older people

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…

Photo of a family in the 80s sitting outside

Hard work isn’t always enough. For three decades, two families – the Neumanns and the Stanleys, one White, one Black – fought hard but failed to regain the financial security they had before being laid off from their good manufacturing jobs with benefits.  A powerful and heartbreaking PBS Frontline documentary that aired last week followed them…