Katie Hood
speaker
592 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 9 Sep
Katie Hood’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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People were living longer, so they could work longer.
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Also, jobs got a lot less physically strenuous, so it was easier to work longer, and traditional pensions started going away, so people couldn't afford not to work longer.
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The share of employed people, 65 and older, has close to doubled since the mid-1980s.
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Now about 19% of the workforce is over age 65.
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And Sam Moines says.
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There have been some collateral effects like upward mobility for younger workers.
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Younger people can't move up in pay, can't move up in position.
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And then can't afford like to buy a home and the whole houses and other benefits.
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As the proportion of workers over age 55 has gone up, so has the pay gap between older and younger workers.
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Between 1979 and 2018, the pay gap between those over age 55 and under age 35 has increased by 61%.
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Sam points out the US is the first society in history where you're more likely to be poor if you're young.
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than if you're old.
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And yet, Sam says most of the social safety net is for older Americans, right?
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Not like lower paid mid career people struggling to afford child care and buy a house.
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Okay.
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Now we have to get to the solution.
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What is your solution?
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Mandatory retirement.
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Meaning you think we should force people to retire when they hit a certain age?
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Correct.
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