Gary A. Officer
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NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast · What Couples Miss When Going Down to One Income · 23 Jul 2026
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So thank you, Rick.
Nice to see you again.
So we are a national organization that provides workforce training to primarily low-skilled, unemployed older Americans who are seeking to reenter the workforce.
So we have a bird's eye view of what's happening for older workers as it relates to workforce opportunity and how they are faring day to day in the labor market.
There's a massive amount of anxiety in the workforce around AI, right?
So we're seeing that in the corporate earnings reports.
We're seeing it in preemptive layoffs.
We're seeing that in occupations that we know will be impacted by the AI transformation.
So a massive amount of labor market and labor force anxiety.
that anxiety is fed into the workforce training system.
Because we all know in the training world that this future is uncertain.
We all know that we are amidst a huge tsunami of change that's occurring within occupations.
But we don't know the scale and how that's going to impact our current workforce.
So this is an age of massive uncertainty.
And candidly, many of us in the field just don't know the full extent of what's to come.
there's about 1.1 million older Americans 54 and over who are actively looking for work.
Yet the long-term unemployment rate for older Americans is 27%.
The labor force participation rate for older Americans 54 to 70 is 37%.
So the data tells us that there's a massive need for skilled, qualified individuals to enter into the workforce.
But the data also tells us that older workers have been squeezed out.
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