Growing numbers of seniors in California are working full time. According to census data, around 14 and a half percent who are between 65 and 75 years old worked that long, year-round, last year. It was 10 and a half percent in 2000. In Nevada and Sierra Counties, it’s around 10-percent, among the lowest in the state, or about 15-hundred people. The director of the Gold Country Community Center in Grass Valley, Sandy Jacobsen, is also an employer…

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With more Baby Boomers reaching senior age, there were almost 450-thousand senior citizens working full-time last year, about double the number of 2000….

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The retirement age has also been gradually going up for when seniors can receive full Social Security benefits. But some seniors also prefer to keep working, even if they don’t have to. Around 100-thousand of those full-timers are earning more than 100-thousand dollars a year.