Old-Age Poverty

Auschwitz is deeply burned inside my body and soul, Umlauf said on a January day almost 75 years after Auschwitz was freed by the Soviet Red Army. A petite woman with a pageboy haircut and eyes as blue as the camp tattoo on her arm, the 77-year-old doctor rem…

MUNICH -- Only 2 years old and so ill she had to stay on for weeks after liberation, Eva Umlauf was one of the youngest prisoners to be freed from Auschwitz. Although she has no conscious memories stretching so far back, her early childhood in the Nazi death camp was…

MUNICH (AP) Only 2 years old and so ill she had to stay on for weeks after liberation, Eva Umlauf was one of the youngest prisoners to be freed from Auschwitz. Although she has no conscious memories stretching so far back, her early childhood in the Nazi dea…

MUNICH (AP) — Only 2 years old and so ill she had to stay on for weeks after liberation, Eva Umlauf was one of the youngest prisoners to be freed from Auschwitz. Although she has no conscious memories stretching so far back, her early childhood in the Nazi death camp…

MUNICH (AP) — Only 2 years old and so ill she had to stay on for weeks after liberation, Eva Umlauf was one of the youngest prisoners to be freed from Auschwitz.Although she has no conscious memories stretching so far back, her early childhood in the Nazi death camp was…

Within 10 years, all of the nation's 74 million baby boomers will be 65 or older. The most senior among them will be on the cusp of 85. Even sooner, by 2025, the number of seniors (65 million) is expected to surpass that of children age 13 and under (58…

AFP 21st Jan 2020 07:03:49 GMT +0300 Some 285 million people worldwide are considered underemployed, meaning they either work less than they want to, have given up searching for work or otherwise lack access to the labour market. Mor…

Storm, flood, drought: With global warming, extreme events become more frequent and intense. They especially impact the poorest of the poor. Geographer Matthias Garschagen examines how urban societies can adapt to climate change. The population of Jakarta has a lot to put up with. Virtually every year, parts of the…

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…