Workers over 50 are increasingly changing jobs or careers for a couple of reasons: they’re looking for better, higher-paying occupations. Or they’ve lost the pension. Or they’ve been laid off. Last week KSFR’s Deborah Martinez shared the first part of her series on older adult workers — and programs that provide them training at Santa Fe Community College. Today she travels to Española and meets a recent graduate of Northern New Mexico College.
This story was written and produced with the support of a journalism fellowship from New America Media, the Gerontological Society of America and the Commonwealth Fund.