More Businesses Started by Retirees

About this episode

The episode discusses the increasing trend of retirees starting their own businesses to supplement their income.

New data shows that there is a growing number of older adults that are actually staying in the workforce or reentering it, or even opting to start a business of their own in retirement in order to simply make ends meet. Roughly one in five Americans age 65 plus are employed or looking for work. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

People in this episode

Host: Simplecast

Topics covered

• retirement
• entrepreneurship
• workforce
• older adults
• business start-ups

Keywords

• retirees
• business
• employment
• older adults
• workforce participation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: StartupNation, AdsWizz

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