Old-Age Poverty

Last year, our nation's children walked out of high schools to complain about school shootings.  Encouraged by teachers and principals, these students proclaimed that they would finally end school violence by effecting changes to national gun laws.  Many have…

Skip to comments. Despite Scary Headlines, America's Elderly Continue to ProsperRCM ^ | 08/14/2019 | Gary Burtless Posted on 08/14/2019 9:58:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind You should be afraid, very afraid. Or so I’m told when I imprudently open email solici…

UFS PhD student Michelle Goliath and members of the small scale cooperatives in Kimberley, Northern Cape. Photo: Supplied. JOHANNESBURG - A PhD student is using unconventional methods to help female "zama zamas" start cooperatives and build a thriving indust…

Nine people are dead and 26 people were injured after a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio last weekend. Officers neutralized the lone suspect after he fired for less than a minute using a .223 caliber semi-automatic rifle capable of penetrating ballistic resistan…

Five years ago today, a police officer murdered a black teenager named Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Police officers kill young black men every day in the United States, but that day, people rose up in response, generating a countrywide groundswell of …

>> Read the first part of our correspondent's journey to Morocco here >> Subscribe for just $1 now After three days in Essaouira we head back to the first city we'd encountered in Morocco, which from my perspective is the jewel in the crown and…

Kate Holmquist who died this weekend aged 62 began writing for The Irish Times in 1985. Kate (or, earlier in her career, Kathryn) wrote on a range of subjects, specialising at different times in the arts, social affairs and education coverage. Over more tha…

Meera Sadagar has not seen her husband for three months. Ten years ago, he packed his belongings and moved over 200 kilometers (124 miles) away to work in a factory, and now rarely comes home. If the 35-year-old mother of five is perturbed by this fact, she …

Dont get me wrong - we understand the importance of tourism to the economy but meanwhile in the bush the housing crisis continues, the housing deficit grows, indigenous people are living lives characterised by poverty and neglect and despair. Another child …

Alena Kalejova with her baby Daniela in the eastern village of Ostrovany Old Bratislava has been restored in the last two decades, and tourists crowd its narrow streets, but it is still scarred by the legacy of communist Czechoslovakia, with boxy housing and…