Southern Connecticut
Working at retirement age: 27.6%
Retirement-age unemployment rate: 10.1%
Total working-age population: 703,405
Working seniors: 40,540 The collapse of the financial industry has hurt silver-collar employment in the Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk area of Connecticut, which includes the hedge fund-rich Gold Coast. But with a high proportion of white-collar workers who haven't been burned out by decades of digging ditches, this area ...
more Southern Connecticut
Working at retirement age: 27.6%
Retirement-age unemployment rate: 10.1%
Total working-age population: 703,405
Working seniors: 40,540 The collapse of the financial industry has hurt silver-collar employment in the Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk area of Connecticut, which includes the hedge fund-rich Gold Coast. But with a high proportion of white-collar workers who haven't been burned out by decades of digging ditches, this area remains a center for over-62 jobs.
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