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December 2, 2019

It’s Not Just Poor White People Driving a Decline in Life Expectancy

As the life expectancy of Americans has declined over a period of three years — a drop driven by higher death rates among people in the prime of life — the focus has been on the plight of white Americans in rural areas who were dying from so-called deaths of despair: drug overdoses, alcoholism and […]

Filed Under: Inequality

November 30, 2019

Helping workers requires more than silver bullets

To improve workers’ skills, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren call for free college for all. To raise wages, many call for a rapid increase in the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour as well as resurgent unionism. And Andrew Yang continues to call for “universal basic income” in response to potentially large-scale job displacement […]

Filed Under: Inequality

November 19, 2019

Half of Single Older Adults in U.S. Lack Income to Pay for Basic Needs

Researchers tracking the economic security of America’s older adults have found that half who live alone and nearly a quarter of those living in two-person households where both are age 65 or older are unable to afford basic necessities without extra assistance. The 2019 Elder Index and a companion report, Insecurity in the States 2019, […]

Filed Under: Welfare, Inequality, and Poverty

November 19, 2019

Living Below the Line: Economic Insecurity and Older Americans, Insecurity in the States 2019

New estimates from the 2019 Elder Index suggest that half of older adults living alone, and 23% of older adults living in two-elder households, lack the financial resources required to pay for basic needs. The Gerontology Institute compares the 2019 household incomes for adults age 65 and above living in one- and two-person households to […]

Filed Under: Poverty

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Crisis in Puerto Rico for the Elderly

Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico on September 20th and the residents of the island remain in great need of assistance.  Almost 3 months later the elderly receiving long term care assistance or in need of such care are among the most vulnerable in the wake of the disaster. Over 16% of Puerto Rico's population are elderly, 40% of them live at or below the poverty level. A high percentage

Overdoses, bedsores, broken bones: What happened when a private-equity firm sought to care for society’s most vulnerable

Public Long-term care programs, including medicaid funded programs, are increasingly being administered by for profit corporate health firms and funded through financial companies, especially private

The Older Americans Act of 1965

The Older Americans Act has provided essential community services for older people for over 40 years.  The program capacity, however, to meet the needs of older people for services like Meals on

U.S. Pays Billions for ‘Assisted Living,’ but What Does it Get?

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