Some 500,000 Jews, about one in ten in the United States, is 65 years of age or over, according to a survey conducted in this and a number of other cities. The local survey was conducted by B’nai B’rith group guidance office and the Jewish Vocational Service of Greater Boston. Similar studies have been carried out in Cincinnati and Minneapolis-St. Paul.
The survey also revealed that Jewish wives outlive their husbands in the ratio of three to one. Two-thirds of the women over 65 interviewed in the local study were widows, but only one-third of the men were widowers.
A college education apparently helps senior men hold on to jobs after 65, the study established, Although only one in every three Jewish men was fully employed after 65, a full half of those who graduated from college are still employed. Two out of every ten have a part-time job and the remaining five of each ten are unemployed or retired.
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