Old-Age Poverty

Senator Chris Van Hollen (D., Md.) has a new proposal to hike the estate tax. Specifically, hed cut the exemption in half (from $11.4 million per individual this year), raise the rate from 40 percent to 45 percent, and shift all the taxs revenues into Social …

Senator Chris Van Hollen (D., Md.) participates in a mock swearing-in in Washington, D.C., January 3, 2017.(Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Senator Chris Van Hollen wants a lower exemption and a 45 percent rate for the estate tax.Senator Chris Van Hollen (D., Md.) h…

Posted July 08, 2019 18:01:25 Hundreds of kilometres from home, physically sick and longing for her country, Mildred Numamurdirdi was placed into a Palmerston aged care facility where she cried for a month without cease. Key points: Remote Aborig…

If you’re a millennial, you may have been led to believe that you have a better chance of seeing a UFO or Bigfoot than receiving a Social Security check. In a recent survey, some 80 percent of millennials are concerned that they won’t be able to receive any S…

This article is part of our special report Is it fair? How social cohesion in Europe can be strengthened. Community and belonging – what do these terms mean in an increasingly diverse and identity-focused world? At the Young Europeans’ Forum 2019 that took p…

pic.twitter.com/a3AjmiqRgc — James Delingpole (@JamesDelingpole) July 1, 2019 No, not really. Look closely and you’ll see that it’s just a painted hardboard cut-out. But it does give you an idea of what we’re up against. Hanging on the wall nearby was a pai…

As a past Prime Minister Ive just written to a present - and soon to be past - Prime Minister, asking her to prevent a scandal. I am asking her, in the last few days of her premiership, to sign off a letter and honour the Conservative election promise to…

As a past Prime Minister Ive just written to a present and soon to be past Prime Minister, asking her to prevent a scandal. I am asking her to honour the Conservative election promise to keep TV licences free for those over 75. I am asking her to think abou…

In 2008, during his fourth campaign to become Prime Minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi released a video in which a beautiful blond woman, standing in a grocery store beside a pile of bananas, sings, Theres a big dream that lives in all of us. A throng of wo…

Land Rovers proposals that we use its SUVs for urban safaris shows how cars have been licensed to damage our lives. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 21st June 2019 What is the best way of wrecking a city? Pour cars into it. Heavy traffic, 50…