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#196 Planet Money: Grandmother vs. Grandson, Steel-Cage Match

#196 Planet Money: Grandmother vs. Grandson, Steel-Cage Match

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Max Marion-Spencer is 18 and unemployed -- despite having applied for jobs at Quizno's, McDonald's, Arby's, Food Lion and Dollar General.

His grandmother, Alice Terry, is 62, and works as a high school teacher.

On today's Planet Money, Max and Alice join us to interview for a fake job.

Fake-job title: Human manifestation of an economic trend.

The trend: In the U.S. workforce, teenagers are now outnumbered by people who are 65 or older.