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But if unions are powerful or seniors are in the majority (in Italy the two coincide, because seniors are the majority in all labor unions), the exact opposite happens.
What drove them to reject the party completely was a policy debate on restructuring “cram schools” – expensive private institutions that prepare high-school seniors for their university entrance examinations.
The good news is that a growing number of seniors in Asia are already working.
And, as South Korea’s rising youth unemployment rate suggests, seniors may be displacing their younger counterparts, instead of working alongside them – effectively defeating the purpose of including more elderly Koreans in the labor force.
A higher share of seniors in the workforce has thus resulted in lower overall productivity in US states and across countries.
But if seniors are to occupy high-quality jobs in the new economy, they need access to more effective lifelong learning programs that enable them to upgrade their skills continuously in response to technological change.
Seniors need to be encouraged to seize these opportunities, even if it requires them to take a break from full-time employment, though on-the-job training is also a desirable option.
It is not only seniors who need access to upgraded education and training programs.
These programs are largely benefits for middle-class seniors and not welfare programs targeted at the relatively poor.
And in Italy, the League has succeeded in large part by exploiting the discontent of Northern Italy’s seniors.
In Uganda, the government’s national health-care strategy could easily be strengthened by adding seniors to the list of so-called vulnerable groups.
Although most seniors are ill-suited for today’s fast-changing labor market, they still have the skills, wisdom, and experience to contribute to society.
In the 1950’s-1970’s, American policymakers made three crucial policy decisions, opting for a privatized, market-driven health-care system that provides the world’s most expensive care; basic pensions indexed to inflation for all seniors; and free health care for all senior citizens.
For example, to ensure that no one who has worked for 30 or more years will live in poverty in old age, Social Security needs a higher minimum benefit for lower-income workers, with more affluent seniors seeing less growth in benefits over time.
Seniors working past the retirement age of 67 should not be subject to the payroll tax, and the retirement earnings test should be eliminated, so that seniors can work full-time without losing out on Social Security benefits.
For starters, bipartisan proposals for premium support, with seniors receiving subsidies to purchase private health insurance, should be implemented.
The bigger problem is that the United States has an enormous fiscal deficit – now about 7% of GDP and predicted to grow rapidly in future decades as an aging population and rising health-care costs increase government outlays for the “entitlement programs” that benefit middle-class seniors.
Here, the creation of local social-media networks could help seniors stay connected, perhaps by drawing them into mentoring and tutoring programs that build cross-generational bonds.
So, if Leung became Hong Kong’s CE, he would jump ahead of many of his seniors in China.
In a survey of elite US universities, Catherine Rampell found that in 2006, just before the financial crisis, 25% of graduating seniors at Harvard University, 24% at Yale, and a whopping 46% at Princeton were starting their careers in financial services.
Faulkner claimed to be champion of the seniors, and even old Buckhorse's curious call rang out above the tumult as he turned the whole company to laughter and good humour again by challenging anything over eighty and under seven stone.
They were all old, or, at least, elderly men; for the younger race, to the great displeasure of the seniors, had, like Ivanhoe, broken down many of the barriers which separated for half a century the Norman victors from the vanquished Saxons.
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