Old-Age Poverty

Filmmaker Frances Calvert always refused handouts. It ruins friendships, she'd say. Never knowing if shed have freelance teaching work from one semester to the next, like many artists in Berlin she developed a repertoire of techniques to manage earnings that …

While a section of society is expressing displeasure over the hefty fines for traffic violations, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday said that even he has been fined for speeding on the Bandra-Worli Sea Link in Mumbai. A car registered in my name too rece…

Skip to comments. Alveda King: Bernie Sanders Population Control Will Target Black CommunitiesBreitbart ^ | 7 Sep 2019 | Robert Kraychik Posted on 09/08/2019 10:33:25 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum A “population control” proposal pushed by Sen. Bernie Sand…

During a Wednesday “town hall” hosted by CNN regarding “climate change,” Sanders accepted the premise of population growth on Earth being “unsustainable,” requiring government controls over procreation. Sanders’s proposal, said King, reminded her of the 1973…

Fewer children, distant relatives or friends, and an increasing plurality of family models are factors that impact on the availability of support and care in old age. Tiziana Nazio, a researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, has explored how early …

Fewer children, distant relatives or friends, and an increasing plurality of family models: These factors impact on the availability of support and care in old age. Tiziana Nazio, a researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, has explored how early fa…

My readers know me as a value investor with a business-owner mindset, who prefer to invest based on the underlying fundamentals of individual companies, own them for the long run, and ride out any intermediate macro distractions. This investing mindset gener…

Baby boomers are the fastest-growing age group in the U.S. By 2029, the national population of those aged 65 and over will be 20 percent of the country. What would an age justice platform look like so that elders could age with dignity? Today’s guests have so…

(Bloomberg) -- Eiffel Tower-sized cranes are digging deep into one of Europes largest lignite mines outside, as Ulrich Freese shakes his head and blows another cloud of cigar smoke into the room. Anger and despair are running high ahead of Sundays state elec…

Is it unthinkable to link well-being to The Blues?  When you are blue, sadness rifles through every aspect of your being.  In a state of the blues, you feel lost, alone, depleted and depressed. Maybe your partner has been unfaithful and has left you for anoth…