By Paul Kleyman, New America Media
A new study estimates that “10.2 million workers ages 58 and older (43.8 percent) were employed either in physically demanding jobs or jobs with difficult working conditions” — with high proportions of older Latinos and African American workers, as well as immigrants, those with poverty incomes or low educational levels.
The authors of the report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research say this situation should give pause to both conservative presidential candidates and some liberal policy experts, who have recommended raising the full retirement age in Social Security.
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