The movie blows open the inconvenient truth - working longer in low-paying jobs i s not the solution to the retirement crisis. The average Social Security benefit at age 62 is $1,130 a month, or just $13,560 a year. McDormand’s character, Fern, lives out of a van and takes on low-paying jobs instead of claiming Social Security early and living in poverty. It’s prize means millions more people will watch the movie and learn about Amazon’s AMZN “CamperForce program” and the roaming ‘nomads’ who work there, especially older workers. Shocking that a movie about discarded older people could win an Oscar! And not just any Oscar - Best Picture! “Nomadland” stars Frances McDormand and is directed by Chloe Zhao. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images For Kathy Wardell, a 56-year-old who decided to live full-time in her camper RV beginning in October, that landscape was the semi-rural Ramblin Pines campground in Woodbine, Maryland over Oscars Weekend. The curtain falls on award season with "Nomadland" taking three of the biggest awards at Sunday's Oscars, but for the women whose lifestyle the film portrays, the curtain will continue to rise, quite literally, on the vast American landscape. outside their RV during a camping weekend at the Ramblin Pines campsite just outside of Baltimore in Woodbine, Maryland on April 23, 2021. Sandy Bosley (L) and Kathy Healy (R), members of the RVing Women mid-Atlantic chapter are seen.
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