older workers

"Retirement" used to mean the end of one chapter of life and the beginning of something new, time spent with family and friends, traveling or focusing on hobbies. Yet for many of today's mature workers, the picture of retirement looks very different: A new CareerBuilder study has found that 57 percent of workers age 60 and over surveyed said they would look for a new job after retiring from their current company.

How many Americans have been out of work for more than a year? Around 4.4 million -- about the same as the population of Louisiana. And a disproportionate percentage of those long-term unemployed workers are 55 and older.

Could you live on less than $30 a day? If you don't have a pension or adequate personal savings, that's what the typical retiree will get in 2036, even setting aside the near-term risks facing Social Security. But don't despair: There are ways to boost your benefits, and ensure that old age doesn't equal penury.

Finding a job is tough for anyone these days, but particularly hard for folks over 50. Older workers need to adjust to a new world of online job boards and electronic networking if they want to stand out from the pack.

Statistics show that workers 55 and older are the only age group to have experienced employment gains since March 2009. Surprisingly, they're the age group with the lowest rate of unemployment as the U.S. exits the Great Recession.

If your 401(k) tanked, join the club. Americans aged 65 to 75 who are forced to keep their jobs will increase significantly, a new study says. Good news is, all these older workers could ease the burden on the overtaxed Social Security and Medicare systems.

I'm not a big fan of job fairs, mainly because they're too general and most of the employers are looking for cheap, entry-level workers.But a recent job fair in Sun City, Ariz., caught my eye because it allowed only job applicants 55 and older inside. And better yet, many of the employers at the...

In the wild, it's often the aged who are first to go when resources get slim. The young take their place and the herd moves on. The same goes with job layoffs, with older, better paid workers losing their jobs and the younger, less experienced and cheaper workers moving up. At least that's the...