{"id":24486,"date":"2026-06-17T14:17:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=24486"},"modified":"2026-06-13T12:02:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T17:02:26","slug":"bad-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=24486","title":{"rendered":"Bad Odds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From a CNBC article: &#8220;More than half, 56%, of full-time workers in their early 50s get pushed out of their jobs due to circumstances like a layoff before they&#8217;re ready to retire, according to a 2018 paper published by the Urban Institute, a think tank. The researchers analyzed data spanning 1998 to 2014.&#8221; Those would be unpleasant odds to hear at any time, but they sound especially bad considering my current situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a CNBC article: &#8220;More than half, 56%, of full-time workers in their early 50s get pushed out of their jobs due to circumstances like a layoff before they&#8217;re ready to retire, according to a 2018 paper published by the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=24486\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24486"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24557,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24486\/revisions\/24557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}