Old-Age Poverty

Editor’s note: Some of our covid-19 coverage is free for readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. For more stories and our pandemic tracker, see our hubJANE KABAHUMA has been eating one meal a day since the end of March, when the lockdown began. She used to work in…

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…

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…

“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…

Skip to comments. WHO dismisses herd immunity as strategy to combat Covid-19 Denverchanncel ^ Posted on 05/13/2020 9:40:10 AM PDT by avkillick Michael Ryan, the World Health Organization’s Executive Director of Health Emergencies, did not mince words when the organization was asked on Monday about the concept of herd immunity.…

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…

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…

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…

I'm trying to figure out why some people still aren't taking curcumin. The only reasons I can come up with are that maybe their testosterone levels and sperm quality are irreproachable and they don't need any help modulating their estrogen receptors, thank you. It could also be that that their…

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…