Staff writer Peter Whoriskey wrote Thursday about how more older Americans are employed than ever before.

Are you retired or approaching retirement? Do you want to reenter the workforce? Or are you delaying retirement for financial reasons?

As recently as October 2011, the unemployment rate for college graduates ages 16-24 (there are 16-year-olds with college degrees?) was 8.1 percent — just 0.5 percent lower than the general jobless rate of 8.6 percent.

Many of these pieces tend to focus on the year’s best or most influential people, creations and events. But we’d like to take a page from our friends at The Fix, who wrap up the year with a ‘Worst Year in Washington’ award, a culmination of their regular ‘Worst Week in Washington’ competition.

     There are a few things I do to shave money from my budget every month. To some it may seem like small savings, but as my grandmother, Big Mama, used to say, “You can’t have a dollar without a penny.”

Now, the company has changed course, saying Tuesday that it would not move forward with implementing the fee program.

The dip in stock price comes as the bank faces customer gripes about the its decision to begin charging a $5 monthly fee for debit card transactions. The fees will begin next year and will apply only to debit card purchases, not to ATM withdrawals, online bill pay or mobile phone transfers, The Post’s Ylan Mui reported Thursday.

Evidence is mounting that even as the U.S. economy continues to struggle, America’s wealthiest individuals are getting richer, pulling further away from the middle class than ever before.

This year’s edition of Forbes’ list of the 400 richest people in America is yet another example of this widening income gap. Forbes reports that the combined wealth of all the individuals on their list is up 12 percent for the year as of August 26th.

On Tuesday night, when Fed policymakers were midway through a two-day, closed-door meeting to decide the nation’s monetary policy, Republican congressional leaders released a letter they had sent to Chairman Ben S. Bernanke saying that the central bank ought not take any new steps to ease monetary policy.

The increase to a seasonally adjusted rate of 5.03 million sales exceeded forecasts of economists surveyed by MarketWatch, who expected the rate to be 4.8 million. The increase follows July’s eight-month low of 4.67 million.