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Women Have Less Secure Retirement, Following Lives Filled With Discrimination And Risks Old-Age Poverty

Women Have Less Secure Retirement, Following Lives Filled With Discrimination And Risks

Women Have Less Security In Retirement Due to Lower Earnings and Higher Risks During Their Careers. Getty Women face a vastly more insecure retirement than men, a new report co-authored by Joelle Saad-Lessler, Tyler Bond and myself shows. They have fewer opportunities to save for retirement during their careers. They…
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May 20, 2020
NYC sees controversial underground parties popping up during coronavirus outbreak Old-Age Poverty

NYC sees controversial underground parties popping up during coronavirus outbreak

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.As the coronavirus pandemic raged through New York City, its underbelly didn’t turn off the lights.Regardless of orders shuttering all nonessential businesses to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, speakeasies are reportedly popping up all over the region.Reports allege…
bubmag
May 20, 2020
Saving lives or saving the economy? Reopening doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing proposition Old-Age Poverty

Saving lives or saving the economy? Reopening doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing proposition

“We can’t keep doing this 100-percent stay-at-home, extreme physical distancing indefinitely, but we also can’t go back to business as usual at this point. There has to be some middle ground,” said Julia Marcus, an epidemiologist and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. “Now is the time to figure out…
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May 14, 2020
Slow economic recovery from coronavirus will lead to ‘significant number’ of indirect deaths Old-Age Poverty

Slow economic recovery from coronavirus will lead to ‘significant number’ of indirect deaths

Sir Ian Diamond said an 'L-shaped' recovery – in which the economy takes several years to return to pre-crisis levels – would lead to a notable increase in mortality - ReutersA long, drawn-out economic recovery will lead to a "significant number" of indirect deaths from coronavirus, the UK's chief statistician…
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May 13, 2020
Column: Republicans seek to exploit COVID-19 crisis to cut Social Security benefits Old-Age Poverty

Column: Republicans seek to exploit COVID-19 crisis to cut Social Security benefits

View photosSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is fretting about the federal deficit, now that billions are going to working people in coronavirus aid, rather than to the wealthy via a tax cut.  (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press)One has to hold begrudging admiration for the determination of the enemies…
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May 11, 2020
Column: Republicans seek to exploit COVID-19 crisis to cut Social Security benefits Old-Age Poverty

Column: Republicans seek to exploit COVID-19 crisis to cut Social Security benefits

One has to hold begrudging admiration for the determination of the enemies of Social Security among Republicans and conservatives: Not only are they refusing to let a global crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic divert them from the long-term campaign to undermine the program, they’re using the crisis to justify…
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May 11, 2020
Emma Watson: ‘Evolutionary theorists believe that patriarchy is not inevitable’ Old-Age Poverty

Emma Watson: ‘Evolutionary theorists believe that patriarchy is not inevitable’

Emma Watson conducted an interview/conversation with Professor Valerie Hudson, author of Sex and World Peace, a data-driven examination of what happens when governments are male-dominated and toxic, and when women are driven out of any political power. I came into this transcript of their conversation simply hoping to grab a…
bubmag
May 8, 2020
Live and Let Die Old-Age Poverty

Live and Let Die

Real Time Reflections from Sheltered Radicals in the Time of the Most Dangerous Criminal in Human History May 3 + Street: Comrades, this article never ends but it’s worth a read: “34 days of pandemic: Inside Trump’s desperate attempts to reopen America.” It is a blow-by-blow account of Trump’s total…
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May 8, 2020