{"id":484,"date":"2008-10-10T08:13:53","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T15:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=484"},"modified":"2008-10-10T08:13:53","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T15:13:53","slug":"getting-help-for-the-economy-from-retirees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"Getting help for the economy from retirees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a title=\"Scott Adams Blog (Oct 09, 2008)\" href=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/blog\/entry\/retired_and_useful\/\">Retired and Useful<\/a> on Scott Adam's blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When we think of how to patch up the ailing economy, we reflexively think about  youth. We think about education, and innovation, and getting healthcare for  young working people. I think we're leaving some low hanging fruit on the trees  with the older generation.<\/p>\n<p>I think about this when I hear about young families struggling with childcare expenses at the same time a bazillion retirees watch Jeopardy and wish they had something better to do. Is there really no way to solve those two problems at the same time?<\/p>\n<p>Certainly retired people could be helping with childcare, tutoring, crime watch,  and other functions that directly benefit society, at least a few hours per  week. Can you think of any other ways to harness senior power to juice the  economy?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/blog\/entry\/retired_and_useful\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Retired and Useful on Scott Adam's blog: When we think of how to patch up the ailing economy, we reflexively think about youth. We think about education, and innovation, and getting healthcare for young working people. I think we're leaving some low hanging fruit <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=484\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}