The Time Has Come To Talk About Senior Poverty In America

Photo credit: Getty. Opinion article by Joe Seldner. Forbes & Next Avenue – July 9, 2021.

If 40 million Americans were suffering from the same severe problem, you might think it would be the subject of considerable media attention, a host of government programs, infusions of business capital and a hot topic of national conversation.

That is certainly what I thought several years ago when I began researching the reality that nearly half of all people of over 55 — one in seven Americans  — had no money saved and risked heading into poverty or certainly into dire conditions that would make their lives desperate for decades to come. […]

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