Our country continues to witness an alarming rise in the number of elderly people turning to the streets to beg to survive ...

Social Security is the backbone of millions of Americans, especially seniors who rely heavily on it. And given recent ...

Ultimately, this drives up costs for our health system and our seniors, creating a cycle of poverty-based health care risks. In addition, seniors living at poverty levels may experience more ...

The entire Puerto Rican society has the unavoidable duty to open its eyes to the painful reality exposed in this newspaper a few days ago of the enormous number of older adults, in all corners of the ...

In percentage terms, the District of Columbia was the leading area with more than 20 percent of seniors living below the poverty line. In 2022, the poverty line was $14,040 for an individual age ...

The number of applications for public assistance in Japan reached 255,897 in 2024, according to preliminary figures. This ...

David W. Rasmussen, Florida State University (THE CONVERSATION) In 1959, more than a third of all elderly Americans lived in poverty. Slashing that number to under 10 percent by the late 1990s was ...

South Korea's income inequality has decreased over the past decade, but the relative poverty rate among the elderly population is among the highest among member countries of the Organisation for ...