In a recent article, Teresa Ghilarducci, a prominent economist who focuses on retirement issues, highlights what she sees as the problem of elderly poverty in the United States: “Already ...

Social Security and Medicare help support older Americans. Many told BI that the checks weren't enough and that they wished ...

A recent survey showed that 44.1 percent of single Japanese women aged 65 and older are living in poverty, much higher than the rate for single elderly men. The poverty level is as severe as that ...

Poverty led to social problems across America. Dr Martin Luther King Jnr blamed poverty as a cause of the Watts Riots in Los Angeles in 1965.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I cover real estate, economics and cost of living. Creek Street, the historic boardwalk in Ketchikan, Alaska. Alaska did not have the ...

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