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At 55 (almost 56), I have been out of work for four months--the longest time I have been involuntarily unemployed since I was sixteen. For the first time, I an not acing interviews, and I wonder how much of it has to do with age. What about the boomers who do not have the education or the experience to move into these life-affirming jobs in the second half of their lives? What about the ones who don't have a choice about whether to work or retire, because they have not earned enough in their lifetimes to save for retirement, because they have no IRA's or 401K's?

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