‘A purpose in this world’: Older adults fear elimination of program that helps them find work

‘A purpose in this world’: Older adults fear elimination of program that helps them find work

By Anna Claire Vollers, Stateline.org HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Mike Leslie, 66, sits at a desk beneath the buzz of fluorescent office lights, his fingers hovering over his new laptop keyboard. He smiles, eyes crinkling beneath a worn baseball cap. It’s a place he never imagined he’d be sitting. Before last year, he’d never used a computer. For most of his life, Leslie hadn’t needed one. He spent 36 years in pipe manufacturing near his North Alabama ho…