Over 50, female and jobless in America
Even as others return to work in an improving US economy, older women are among millions of Americans yet to regain their footing in the workplace
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THE latest signs of an improving US economy were good enough to help persuade the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade. But the better job market is not good enough to land Chettie McAfee a job.
Laid off at the start of the recession from the diagnostic testing firm in Seattle where she spent more than three decades, Ms McAfee, 58, has not worked since 2007. "I've been applying and applying and applying," said McAfee, who has relied on her savings and family to get by as she fights off attempts to foreclose on her home. At interviews, she said, "They ask, 'Why has it been so long?'"
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