Retired nurse faces ‘difficult’ reality of returning back to work to make ends meet

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Retired nurse Joyce Fleming shares why she decided to return to work due to rising costs.

Inflation continues to squeeze more Americans out of retirement and back into the workforce. 

Forced by the harsh reality of the rising cost of living and higher prices, retired nurse Joyce Fleming was forced to return to work to make ends meet. 

«It's difficult,» Fleming said on «Fox & Friends» Tuesday. «I had to go back to a financial advisor just to rearrange my whole finances, realizing that, if I want to continue to live my lifestyle, I needed to probably add a few more dollars to my budget. And so I felt like I had to go back to work.»

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When asked about the primary motivation for returning to work, Fleming cited the «rising cost after the pandemic hit.»

«I had a fence estimate back right before I retired. After I retired, I contacted the gentleman to put the fence in. It was $2,000 more than what the estimate was just because of rising costs and supply issues and things like that,» she said.

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Core prices, which exclude the more volatile measurements of food and energy, climbed 0.4% – the largest monthly increase since April