Gary A. Officer

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NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast · What Couples Miss When Going Down to One Income · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

scorers in the NBA at 41 years old.

So the virtues of intergenerational workforce and how it drives productivity is something that we often overlook, but it's real.

I think the level of investment, frankly, is insufficient.

The only program that focuses on the workforce needs of older Americans is the Community Service Employment Program, otherwise known as CSEP.

It's less than 1% of a total budget within the Department of Labor's workforce training unit.

The need, when measured against resources, it just rolls apart.

That's a huge problem.

And it's a huge problem because people will need to have two things that will be needed to go forward.

Many people who are out of the workforce will need to be re-skilled.

To be re-skilled, you need the resources and institutions that have the resources to provide that training.

To re-skill, you have to have the resources to actually participate in training programs perhaps that provides credentialing.

That requires income.

And now we have an issue there.

We don't have the flexibility of time and or resource that's needed by this very population that's often ignored and marginalized that they need to be successful in the workforce.

And that's a huge blind spot for us.

So we invest less than 1% of a total US Department of Labor's workforce budget is designated for workers who are 55 and over.

primarily older African-American, Latino workers were concentrated in 10 occupational categories that had a high probability of being completely transformed if not eliminated within a decade because of machines.

In 43 states in this country, the number one occupation

is truck driving.

We now see in many cities the driverless cars driving around, right?

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