A lot of you will write away recognize this voice.

Good evening, I'm Ray Suarez.

Ray Suarez spent years as an anchor and host in public media,

and then at almost 60 years old he got laid off.

So suddenly in that very moment I became the person that I used to cover.

You know I did personal finance stories, I did economic crisis stories, and now there I am sitting on my living room

couch in the predicament saying how did this happen to me? You know I just thought that I had built in enough bumpers around myself and there I was.

Coming up, Ray tells his story and we consider the lessons it has for all of us about job security as we

age and about how we see each other across class lines. At what age do you anticipate being able to retire?

Probably like around 70, which is a stretch. I have a lot of student loans.

Do you think that it was a part of the American promise that there would be something

there for people for when they are older and want to retire.

Like I know that for sure my mom and my dad that's the reason why they came to this country

is because of like the benefits that you would receive being a US citizen but they're talking

about how Social Security is going to run out so for our generation we would definitely

have to like reform all of these social programs in order to even have the possibility to use it to the extent

of the generations before.

It'll take a lot of work.

Definitely getting rid of a lot of the older generation in the government because they don't realize how much we are struggling just to be able to live.

Welcome to the show, I'm Kayai Wright and let me tell you that probably the primary

anxiety of my life these days is how I am going to afford everything about my life as I get older.

And I mean, look, don't get me wrong. I do all right these days, but I have certainly been broke many times in my life.

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