by Kyle Moore and Teresa Ghilarducci After 11 years of economic expansion, the difference in unemployment rates between black and white older workers is at a historic low—just 1.1 percentage points apart. Black workers usually suffer from much higher rates of...
What’s At Stake In Trump Promise To Roll Back ACA Nondiscrimination Rule?
by Lois Uttley. This article originally appeared on the Community Catalyst blog. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) includes a groundbreaking nondiscrimination provision known as Section 1557, or the “Health Care Rights Law,” which serves as the first federal law to...
The Coming Generational Diversity in the Workforce
While most of Congress is in recess during the month of August, the conference circuit is in full swing. Hot off the heels of n4a’s 43rd Annual Conference & Tradeshow at the beginning of the month, Dr. Eun Jeong Lee, National Asian Pacific Center on aging (NAPCA)...
Reframing Aging: “Let’s include younger generations in this conversation instead of competing against them”
This article originally appeared on the NHCOA blog. The Reframing Aging Thought Leaders Roundtable is an initiative of the National Hispanic Council on Aging (NHCOA). The second of three 2018 roundtables was held in New Mexico. “Using our national platform, we have...
Advocating for Diverse Elders on Senior Citizens’ Day
This article originally appeared on the NICOA blog. Every year, August 21st is celebrated as National Senior Citizens’ Day, a day where we recognize our Elders and the contributions they have made throughout their lives. The day was created in 1988 and President...
Immigrant elders find relief with affordable housing in NYC, but feel isolated from community
This article originally appeared on the India Home blog. Nurul Khan and his wife Farida Begum are an older Bengali couple from Queens who lived for 30 years in damp basement apartments in Jamaica, Queens. “It was so damp I got arthritis,” Farida Begum said to visitors...