ED EISEN
‘I’m 80 —
WHAT DO I DO NOW?’
Ed Eisen Believes in Second Acts —
AND Eighth AND Ninth AND 10 th …
LIZ SPIKOL | JE STAFF
Not much had changed since last year: The lowest average retirement age across
50 states was still 62; the highest was still 65. Nor had the national average age of
retirement changed from 63.

Another fact that’s also stayed remarkably stable: the number of people who are
part of the labor force after 80. In both years of SmartAsset’s study, that number was
only 6 percent.

Ed Eisen, it appears, didn’t get that memo.

See Eisen, Page 14
12 DECEMBER 15, 2016
THE GOOD LIFE
PHOTO OF ED EISEN BY BOB KRAVITZ
This summer, the financial data company SmartAsset released its
second annual study on American retirement. Using census microdata
on labor force participation between 2010 and 2014 for people aged 40
to 80, the company determined the average retirement age on both
state and national levels.

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