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Older Americans are cherished and invaluable members of our society, deserving our utmost respect, gratitude, and admiration.  During Older Americans Month, we pause to draw upon the wisdom, spirit, and experience older adults bring to our families, our communities, and our Nation.  We also recognize that during this time of crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, we can persevere and prevail by emulating the resolve, tenacity, and determination of America’s more experienced individuals who have endured and overcome life’s most challenging times.Older Americans have built our economy, defended our freedom, and shaped our Nation’s character.  They have raised families and...

The “workamper” jobs range from helping harvest sugar beets to flipping burgers at baseball spring training games to Amazon’s AMZN, +2.87% “CamperForce,” seasonal employees who can walk the equivalent of 15 miles a day during Christmas season pulling items off warehouse shelves and then returning to frigid campgrounds at night. Living on less than $1,000 a month, in certain cases, some have no hot showers. As Bruder writes, these are “people who never imagined being nomads.” Many saw their savings wiped out during the Great Recession or were foreclosure victims and, writes Bruder, “felt they’d spent too long losing a...

Why more senior citizens are carrying guns They're protecting themselves from what they see as a rise in violence, even if crime statistics say otherwise. By Tim Vanderpool | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor TUCSON, ARIZ. - A pistol's sharp report pierces the morning calm, as Charles Van Vibber lowers his Glock automatic. He scans a bullet-stopping berm among dusty cactuses at the Desert Trails Gun Club, as a breeze ruffles his white hair. "You need to be able to protect yourself, because the police are not always able to protect you at any moment," he says. Mr. Van...