Old-Age Poverty

When it comes to economic development, positive change is typically gradual and only noticeable over long periods of time; by contrast negative developmentseconomic crisesare often rapid and spectacular. This creates a biased narrative that focuses on negativ…

SECURE SYNOPSIS: 08 OCTOBER 2019 NOTE: Please remember that following answers are NOT model answers. They are NOT synopsis too if we go by definition of the term. What we are providing is content that both meets demand of the question and at the same time gi…

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for director Todd Phillips' Joker, in theaters now. As much as we think Todd Phillips' Joker is the story of Arthur "Happy" Fleck's (Joaquin Phoenix) break down and evolution into a murderer, there's much more to the …

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…