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Scared of Aging? Read This.
A few enterprising souls have found smart, innovative ways to make it easier to age in America.
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How to Retire "¦ Slowly
In Wisconsin, a health care employer shows that the choice between working and not working needn't be all or nothing.
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National Journal Those Who Can, Teach
In California, a nonprofit is recruiting experienced engineers and scientists to teach in the beleaguered public schools.
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National Journal A Concierge of Your Own
As older people try to keep living at home, having someone to call who'll know who to call helps a lot.
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Steve Nesius / Reuters Will Baby Boomers Change the Meaning of Retirement?
Many older Americans want and need to keep working, but that requires a major shift in the way the country thinks about the elderly.
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National Journal Passing on a Love of Reading to the Young
AARP's Experience Corps harnesses the skills of retired professionals who want a chance to give back.
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National Journal How to Grow Older With Comfort and Purpose
As baby boomers reach retirement age, many are rethinking what the later stages of life should look like.
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Andrew Burton / Reuters Confirmed: Millennials' Top Financial Concern Is Student-Loan Debt
They’re also still worried about wealth accumulation and saving enough to buy a home.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters When It Comes to Getting a Job, Americans Believe Skills Trump College
People see social intelligence and computer knowledge as more important than a four-year degree in preparing for the workplace, according to a new poll.
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National Journal The Debt Dilemma
Student loans are weighing more heavily on today's young people than they did on earlier generations, the latest Heartland Monitor poll finds.
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National Journal The New Rules of Success on the Job
In a new poll, Americans say that technical skills and social intelligence trump a four-year college degree as necessary skills for the workplace.
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Why Does Walla Walla Have a Wine Industry?
Using a new economic playbook, rural and urban areas look to build thriving regional economies around local specializations.
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National Journal Phoenix Makes a Play to Become An R&D Powerhouse
The Greater Phoenix Area, once an epicenter for the foreclosure crisis, now wants to become a hub for software, engineering, and research.
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Can Seattle Go Any Greener?
The city looks to become a hub for smart-building technology.
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Kentucky's Workforce Experiment
How the cities of Louisville and Lexington banded together to create a pipeline of skilled manufacturing workers.
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Laszlo Balogh / Reuters Planning for Rural America's Economic Future
In Pottawattamie County, the agricultural sector is proving that innovative regional strategies can start anywhere.
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National Journal The Economic Plan That Could Help Rural America
What works for cities could also boost the economies of farming communities.
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Reuters When Cities and Suburbs Work Together
Metropolitan areas like Denver and New York are shunning competition and focusing on how entire regions can work together to reach economic goals.
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National Journal A Truce in the War Between Cities and Their Suburbs
Dueling tax incentives and bidding wars are so retro. Now economic development is all about regional cooperation.
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National Journal The Long-Term Unemployment Trap
The longer someone has gone without a job, the harder it is for them to land one. These programs have figured a way back into work.
