Old-Age Poverty

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…

In the absence of social and legal protection, he said in his message, widowed womens lifetime earnings and savings are often too little to avoid poverty.   Even in countries with good pension coverage, women are significantly more likely to suffer poverty i…

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Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres message for International Widows Day, observed on 23 June: International Widows Day invites us to consider the economic hardship and increased vulnerability that these bereaved women can face. In the absenc…

Jared Diamond argues (in Upheaval) that modern Japan is facing a crisis, of sorts: Japan today has the worlds third-largest economy, only recently overtaken by Chinas. Japans national output is high both because Japan has a large population (second on…

Michelle Treanor at a Dollar General Corp. store in Saddle Brook, New Jersey, Emile Wamsteker/Bloomberg BLOOMBERG NEWS  On average, older Americans have a more secure retirement than ever. But even as aggregate retirement savings are rising, tens …

GENEVA—Swiss women turned out by the thousands Friday for a nationwide strike and demonstrations signalling their frustration over deep-rooted inequalities in one of the richest countries in the world. The women skipped work and shunned household responsibil…

Organizers worked for a year preparing for Fridays strike and appeared to have mobilized broad support, attracting trade unions, university staff members, students, church groups and female farmers to the march. Its the beginning of a new movement, Flavia W…