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Older women could be the secret to boosting the US economy. Here's why

Seventy-six-year-old crossing guard June Young helps pedestrians through an intersection she has worked for 32 years, with the blast furnaces from the now-closed Bethlehem Steel mill behind her, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S. April 21, 2016. Young's father and two brothers all worked at the steel mill, her father from the age of eighteen until he retired at the age of sixty-two.   REUTERS/Brian Snyder    SEARCH "BETHLEHEM STEEL" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES

So how can they be retained in the workforce? Image: REUTERS/Brian Snyder SEARCH "BETHLEHEM STEEL" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES

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