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States Seek to Stretch Working Years of Baby Boomers About to Retire

All Headline News, 2/22/08

Abstract:

Various states are seeking ways to delay the retirement of a large chunk of American labor force through policies and programs designed to keep baby boomers in the work place.

At least five states expected to benefit for a few years more from the rich experience of the first batch of potential retirees who were born in 1946. Another 8 states would try to tap them as volunteer or part-time staff...

...Arizona recently initiated the Mature Workforce Initiative which makes an online list of mature residents willing to perform paid and volunteer work and business establishments open to hiring senior staff.California has its EnCorps Teachers Program, which seeks to convince elderly Californians to fill in the gap for 33,000 new science and math teachers in state schools.

Wyoming, Ohio, New Mexico, Maine, Florida, Colorado, Arkansas and Alabama are crafting with the National Governors Association a program that will seek ways skills of senior citizens may still be of use in their states.

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