We finished a study about senior entrepreneurship, and all of the factors that Vanessa just mentioned came up as well. People sometimes undertook starting a small business or some kind of a side gig very much out of necessity, or they just needed that additional engagement for one reason or another. But then they were finding a mismatch between wanting to engage in the entrepreneurial pathway and finding that programs were available exclusively to youth under the age of 30. There was this sort of balancing act between their wanting to engage or their needing to engage and then not having those supports available for their age group or for what they were trying to accomplish. That was something we saw in some entrepreneurship work we did as well. All of those factors came out in that discourse, too.
On April 30th, 2019. See this statement in context.