{"id":578173,"date":"2026-08-08T03:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/578173\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T03:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:08:09","slug":"why-older-workers-arent-retiring-planet-money-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/578173\/","title":{"rendered":"Why older workers aren\u2019t retiring : Planet Money : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When workers past retirement age can’t afford to retire \u2014 that’s one thing.\u00a0When they can, and just don’t want to \u2014 that’s trickier.<\/p>\n

It used to be legal to force people to retire when they hit a certain age.\u00a0The trend used to be earlier and earlier retirement. Now it’s later and later retirement. And younger workers say it’s impacting their career advancement and their ability to save for their own retirement.<\/p>\n

At the same time, older workers are living longer, Social Security and Medicare funding are less secure than ever \u2026 and many people want to keep working.<\/p>\n

Age in the workplace is a tricky thing to talk about. But today on the show, we’re talking about it.\u00a0On the latest Planet Money, a law professor who says retirement should be mandatory at age 70. And an economist who says, actually \u2026 people should delay retirement even longer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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This episode was reported by Sarah Gonzalez. It was produced by Willa Rubin, edited by Eric Misitzis Mennel, and fact-checked by Sierra Juarez. It was engineered by Robert Rodriguez and Jimmy Keeley. Alex Goldmark is our executive producer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Music: NPR Source Audio: “Don’t Cross The Line,”\u00a0 “Aventure Burlesque,” and “Hollywood.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"flyzone\/iStockphoto\/Getty Images When workers past retirement age can’t afford to retire \u2014 that’s one thing.\u00a0When they can, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[114,268,85,46,266,267],"class_list":["post-578173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}