The U.S. economy needs older workers. Congress can help.

“Employment rates still lag for people 55 and over.”More and more Americans previously relegated to the margins of the economy are successfully finding work. But for one group of workers, the jobs surge has been less dramatic — namely those aged 55 and over. Fortunately, Congress has a mechanism to help address this discrepancy — they just need to fund it. Even as the employed share of “prime working age” Americans (25 to 54) has recovered to pre-pandemic leve