who are neither working nor looking for work nor

who are neither working nor looking for work nor going to school.

For the most part they are people who have acquired sufficient resources or financial backing to enable them to not-work, many of them at a comparatively early age.

Although there are some shirkers among them who rely upon the rest of society to provide for them, the great majority are quite different. Because their funds, are adequate for their needs they don’t have to work and they don’t choose to do so.

In Rappahannock County, the number of men in this non-work group is estimated, on the basis of statistics from the Department of Labor and the Department of Commerce, at about 420. Throughout the United States at the present time there are 8.5 million men in this non-work population. Of those who are over 65, three out of four have retired. The others in that age bracket are still working.

The proportion of non-workers among those over 65 is 22 percent greater than it was in 1960.

In Rappahannock County there are many more men who are over 65 and no longer working than there were ten years ago. At that! time the total was 214. I

What do they live on? Outside of savings, interest, dividends and other income from investments that they might have, their main source of funds is from government “transfer payments”.

These include social security benefits, pensions, the proceeds of life insurance policies, veterans benefits, unemployment insurance and the like.

Because retirement has become easier, financially, the proportion of non-workers to workers has been rising.

In the local area, on the basis of the latest figures, an estimated 25 percent of the male population over 14 is now in the non-school, non-work category. The comparable percentage in 1960 was 20.

Elsewhere in the United States, the non-workers represent 14 percent of the total.