demographics

Kai Ryssdal and Nela Richardson reflect on “The Age of Work,” a two-year reporting project spanning four countries on three continents.

The women’s labor force participation rate in India is 32%. After seeing how little opportunity women had to earn money, one Mumbai woman started a company to empower women economically.

The median age in India is 29 years old — 10 years younger than in the United States. But despite its youth and high growth, the country’s economy faces hurdles.

Just over half can cover costs for themselves and their families with what they’re bringing home from work.

There’s been a “targeted, surgical removal of data sets, or elements of data sets, that are not aligned with the administration’s priorities,” said Denice Ross at the Federation of American Scientists.

After two years of unemployment and feeling invisible, Stuart Morris changed his mindset to get back to work.

Two community outposts in the town of Crossville aim to ease the stresses of seniors on fixed incomes.

Leisure activities are a big theme with Cumberland County’s growing retirement community.

If demographics are destiny, then what’s happening here is eventually going to play out all over the country.

As part of our new series, “The Age of Work,” Marketplace is exploring the aging U.S. labor force.