The Long Beach Island branch of the Ocean County Library in Surf City will host “The Growing Economic Crisis” on Monday, July 29, at 7 p.m. In a program sponsored by the Friends of theLibrary Mary Gatta, associate professor at City University of New York, will present research from her latest book, Waiting on Retirement: Aging and Economic Security in Low Wage Work. She said the United States is facing an imminent grim reality as more and more workers are not able to retire.
Gatta spent several years interviewing workers who were in their 30s through their 70s as they tried to prepare for a…
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