Retirement benefits for recipients of the U.S. Social Security program must be scaled back by 2033 if there is to be any chance of sustaining full retirement benefit payouts, but a consistent lack of ...

More older Americans were living in poverty in 2024, new data on income, poverty, and health insurance released by the Census Bureau shows. According to the supplemental poverty measure, which takes ...

It is a national disgrace that poverty-level federal pensions are forcing our vulnerable elders to seek help in getting ...

This chart shows poverty rates* in the United States, by age group (in percent).

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) David W. Rasmussen, Florida State University (THE CONVERSATION) In 1959, more than a ...