Old-Age Poverty

A higher tax rate for wealthy pensioners could help defray the cost of New Zealand's superannuation scheme, the Retirement Commissioner says. The commission is working through its three-yearly review of retirement income policies. At present, the pension …

Once again, the American voter has dutifully begun their quadrennial march to futility at the hands of another election cycle full of false prophets. None seem to realize or remember that the monocracy that they hold so sacrosanct is not- and has not been- a …

The Association of National Advertisers has long called its biggest event of the year the Masters of Marketing. But this years confab might as well have been called Masters of Emotion. The event, which drew 3,000 people last week to the Rosen Shingle Creek re…

Stephanie Cole has been playing old women since she was 17 and has cornered the market in TV battle-axes and matriarchs. Her roles include Delphine The Black Widow Featherstone in Open All Hours, Roy Croppers mum Sylvia in Corrie, Doc Martins Aunt Joan and s…

I stared disconsolately at three crumpled slips of loose-leaf paper. Separately, they had been drawn out of an old green fedora by three strangers in a restaurant, and together they created an ordinary day chosen at random: December, 28 and 1986. That was the…

By Gene Weingarten I stared disconsolately at three crumpled slips of loose-leaf paper. Separately, they had been drawn out of an old green fedora by three strangers in a restaurant, and together they created an ordinary day chosen at random: "December," "28…

This year’s United Nations Climate Summit was an emotional rollercoaster: There was Greta Thurnberg’s 495-word speech, one for the history books; a new report on melting ice and warming oceans; and recognition of the sobering reality that effective climate me…

News / 28 September 2019, 07:26am / Sheree Bega Seventeen-year-old Cape Town climate activist Ayakha Melithafa. The world is starting to listen to us and more old people have stopped seeing what we are doing as a rebellious act, said 17-year-old Cape Town c…

I spent the last few hours before I emigrated stuck in a short story about emigrating. All my life Ive tried to avoid being defined by small details the way people always are in short stories. Like the way my parents drove up in their Sunday clothes to bring …

Is today's adult obesity epidemic the result of children in the 1970s and 1980s consuming excessive amounts of sugar? New research uses a mathematical model to find the answer. In recent years, obesity rates in the United States have skyrocketed. To be spec…