Megan Cottrell is an award-winning journalist based in Chicago. She has written for The Chicago Reporter, DNAinfo Chicago, The Chicago Reader, AOL and Change.org, among other publications.
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Labor
A Dream Deferred for Older Americans Struggling to Find Work
Megan Cottrell