Old-Age Poverty

Boris Johnson might as well have made this week’s announcement about the go-ahead for a £106 billion high-speed rail link wearing a silk cravat and a frock coat.Here was a prime minister making grandiose promises to transform this nation through steel, just as his Victorian predecessors — Peel, Disraeli, Gladstone…

The Wall Street Journal has a sobering new article on a phenomenon that heretofore had gone largely under the radar: the elderly, or per US-speak, seniors, isolated in their premises and either too feeble and/or too cognitively impaired to take care of themselves. They are casualties of the progress of…

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Carly Rae Jepsen is not a celebrity. Unlike other pop stars of her calibre – and there are few – she gets to go outside. She can blend into the mass of New York City, or hike up the mountains near her home in Los Angeles, and barely prompt a…

The future of green industry is here — and Roxbury Community College is aiming to help workers access the jobs in the growing sector. RCC held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open the Center for Smart Building Technology, a program designed to prepare students for the future of sustainable energy.  …

AbaribeBy Rotimi Ojomoyela The Ekiti State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has described the Senate Minority Leader, Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe’s outburst that President Muhammadu Buhari has failed and should resign as not only political and sentimental, but flied in the face of common sense. The party which called…

Tempo de leitura: 5 minutosInequality by Ulisses Wehby de CarvalhoTextos Mastigados #71Global inequality is ‘out of control’Venha ler e traduzir comigo o artigo Global inequality is ‘out of control’. Você vai aprender e/ou rever o significado e a pronúncia de wealth, amass, charity, call on, ease, burden, the elderly, tax,…

The history of modern economic planning doubles as a resort travelogue. In 1947, the forefathers of neoliberalism launched their world-conquering project at the Hôtel Du Parc on Mont Pèlerin in the Swiss Alps. Global economic consensus has remained synonymous with jet-setting hospitality in the decades since. From Davos to Doha,…

A woman who was one of the youngest prisoners to be freed from Auschwitz has spoken about how her early childhood in the Nazi death camp was to cast a dark shadow over her entire life. Eva Umlauf was two years old when Auschwitz was freed by the Soviet Red…

SANTIAGO, Chile. In October, a rise in Santiago’s metro fares set off the biggest protests in Chile since the end of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. Protesters were calling out elite corruption, inequality, high prices and low wages, and specifically the pain caused by a privatized retirement system, which left many old people in…