Gary Burtless is Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of Aging Societies: The Global Dimension.
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Gary Burtless is Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of Aging Societies: The Global Dimension.
In the last decade, the earnings of older workers have increased significantly, which may reduce some of the pain of cuts to the social safety net.
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