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Willie Pep
Willie Pep's Journal
Willie Pep's Journal
March 11, 2018
Full article: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/many-older-americans-are-living-a-desperate-nomadic-life-2017-11-06
Many older Americans are living a desperate, nomadic life
I thought this article was a sobering look at the lives of some older Americans and a good antidote to claims that the Baby Boomers are all living on easy street.
In her powerful new book, Nomadland, award-winning journalist Jessica Bruder reveals the dark, depressing and sometimes physically painful life of a tribe of men and women in their 50s and 60s who are as the subtitle says surviving America in the twenty-first century. Not quite homeless, they are houseless, living in secondhand RVs, trailers and vans and driving from one location to another to pick up seasonal low-wage jobs, if they can get them, with little or no benefits.
Full article: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/many-older-americans-are-living-a-desperate-nomadic-life-2017-11-06
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