“I was waiting to see if [Mr. Hopkins] would call me back, and he hasn’t,” says Ms. Appleby. She lives modestly, with Timmy, a 13-year-old white spaniel mix, amid piles of papers, boxes and a lone black-and-white photo from her high-school graduation. “I was fine with Social Security and my job. I have to find other work.”
Tough to read, but a great story.
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#1 Posted by ed ericson, CJR on Mon 23 Feb 2009 at 09:11 PM
See the write-up on cjr called "Lai off and loving it" by Jane Kim.
This quote could equally well apply to the WSJ piece you find so compelling.
It "emblematizes the methodological problems of the article, which takes slimly reported anecdotes and shapes them to fit an exceedingly simplistic thesis. Without deeper interviews or more allotted newspaper inches," the "story is a superficial trend piece at best."
I was impressed by the dignity and determination of the people chronicled in the WSJ story and didn't find their situation at all grim, especially sine we're iven so little info as to the choices they've made.
#2 Posted by Joe Zekas, CJR on Mon 23 Feb 2009 at 10:39 PM
What's worse is spending years working with senior oriented organizations like NCOA, AARP, and Experience Works and not being able to find a job non-subsidized by the government. You see so many people end up in abject poverty that it's more than depressing. Our country doesn't like old people, period.
Let's be candid for a change.
#3 Posted by NoJobs, CJR on Tue 24 Feb 2009 at 04:20 AM