Earlier this month, the Archbishop of Canterbury backed an open letter, signed by 43 of his bishops, criticising plans to limit rises in working-age benefits and some tax credits to 1% for three years.
In 2009 the number of people of working age in western Germany shrank for the first time.
As a result, the coming years will see a boom in people of working age.
We need to use this money to support some of the 668, 000 other disabled people in Scotland of working age.
And with the deaths concentrated in the working-age population, each new case adds to a widening circle of economic hardship.
Like the U.S., China is expected to have a high population of retirees and a smaller number in the working-age population.
This is the measure which will limit the increase in most working-age benefits to 1% per year, as part of the government's deficit reduction strategy.
The unemployment rate actually rose, to 9.1%, in May: the rate of job creation is barely keeping track with the natural increase in the working-age population.
Chancellor George Osborne has proposed a cap of 1% - which is below the expected rise in the cost of living - on increases in most working-age benefits, such as Jobseeker's Allowance and maternity pay, and tax credits for three years from 2013-14.
And the prevalence of HIV and Aids in southern Africa is compounding the problem, since the disease is crippling and killing adults of working age in their thousands.
When Nasa was created, in 1958, around 85% of American working age men were in work.
In September 2011 about 16% of the working-age population in Wales claimed out-of-work benefits, compared to an average of 13% in Great Britain, according to Welsh government statistics.
By 2050 there will be 35 persons of retirement age for every 100 working-age individuals in the U.S. at current fertility levels, according to the UN.
One reason for that is that spelling out the actual policy - a rise in benefits for people of working age by 1% which, since it is below inflation, represents a cut in real terms over the next three years.
The trial is also doing something else: sounding some warnings for all of us working in the digital age.
In places such as Wimbledon and Winchester, only about one in 40 of working-age adults does not have a qualification.
Men of working age in the East End of London are twice as likely to die from heart disease as men in Surrey.
Only 60% of the population of working age in the euro area have jobs, compared with 74% in America and 71% in Britain.
Currently one in seven Americans of working age is not provided with health insurance by their employer and does not qualify for government medical care.
Required to support her family, Helen Gurley became a working woman in an age before the feminist revolution had helped women win acceptance in the workforce.
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The Churches Together group said elderly people made up an increasing proportion of the local population, with only 56% of people in the town of working age.
Instead, today's workers pay for today's retired and the demographic calculation is that whereas in 1995 there were roughly five people of working age for every retired person, in 2030 there will be only three.
Given that people who move to Russia tend to be of working age, the working age population has stabilized in contrast to earlier expectations of a rapid contraction in the labor force.
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The main effect of the new law was not an increase in the numbers of people working beyond the age of 65 but a big rise in severance pay for people leaving at what until then had been the mandatory retirement age.
In March 2012 there were 10, 802 people of working age registered with learning disabilities in Wales but the number of those eligible for blue badges will not be known until Pip assessments take place.
Ministers say the rise in the amount spent on working age benefits must be slowed.
Of those who were not in education and were of working age, 59% were unemployed.
Government figures show 17 million working age people in England have only primary school level maths skills.
Currently, almost 8% of working age people in the city are jobless.
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