Old-Age Poverty

A woman walks past the Social Security Administration office in downtown Los Angeles, on October 1, 2013 in California. FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP via Getty Images Janine Jackson:Corporate media’s image of Social Security is, at times quite literally, a gray-h…

Written by G Pramod Kumar | Chennai | Updated: January 11, 2020 4:59:20 pm Ramakrishnan MurthyAs a kid growing up in the US, when Ramakrishnan Murthy was sent to Padma Kutty – a very respected music reacher in southern California – to learn Carnatic musi…

Accurate. The Trump administration agreed to halve a 15 percent tariff on about $120 billion in Chinese products while negotiations begin on Phase Two of a trade deal with China. Some initial trade issues were resolved in Phase One of the deal. The details of…

2020-01-08 05:00 Every now and then people visit South Africa, only to find that their hearts are touched in a way that ties them forever to the men, women and children of our beautiful land, writes Melanie Verwoerd Happy New Year! My year did not start ve…

The president surpassed 15,400 false or misleading claims as of Dec. 10, according to our database tracking all of his suspect statements. But its worth drilling down on his rallies. Theyve gotten longer over time, and theyre a key part of Trumps reelection b…

LONDON, England; JOHANNESBURG, South Africa; CALAIS, France Theres a pretty little part of South West London where dead people fall from the sky. Its a perfectly charming area. The bodies dont fall on it all the time, of course, only more frequently than one…

As traditional stories that help define the norms of a particular society, myths serve an important cultural role.  This is especially true in the United States, a society whose national identity is heavily steeped in mythologies that have over time been cons…

In a tweet on Christmas Day, U.N. Women, a United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women, called motherhood a "penalty" that not "every woman can afford." The tweet included an image of a fake citation notice for the violati…

YOU MAY NEVER have heard of Lata Brandisová, and if so, youre not alone. A trailblazing figure, she remains the only female to triumph in the Grand Pardubice Steeplechase widely perceived as the worlds toughest horse race. Yet even many aficionados of the s…

By Meriana Johnsen for RNZ Another group of places across the country now reflect both Mori and Pkeh history after receiving dual names this year. Land Information New Zealand has given twenty-two places from Fiordland to the East Cape both English and Mo…