"More Companies Hire Workers They Once Spurned—The Elderly"
Newspaper article
By: Bill Paul
Date: November 2, 1970
Source: Paul, Bill. "More Companies Hire Workers They Once Spurned—The Elderly." Wall Street Journal, November 2, 1970, 1, 18.
About the Author: Bill Paul wrote for the Wall Street Journal, which is published by Dow Jones & Company. The Wall Street Journal first began publication in the United States in 1889, and has since gone on to become a successful newspaper with a wide readership and several global editions. Dow Jones & Company also publishes Barron's and the Far Eastern Economic Review.
Introduction
Both life expectancy and perceptions about retirement have changed dramatically in the United States since 1900. Americans are living twenty-nine years longer on average, and the transition to a "knowledge economy"—no longer requiring as much hard physical labor as in...
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