On a recent rainy afternoon in this small town just outside Glacier National Park, Lisa Beaty and Kim Hilton were preparing to sell most of their belongings before moving out of their three-bedroom, two-bathroom rental home.
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Homelessness Among Older People Is On The Rise, Driven By Inflation And Housing Crunch
Posted on 12 November 2022.
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Economic Insecurity: Anxious Older Adults Try to Cope With Limited Budgets
Posted on 11 September 2022.
Economic insecurity is upending the lives of millions of older adults as soaring housing costs and inflation diminish the value of fixed incomes.
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‘True Cost of Aging’ Index Shows Many Can’t Afford Basic Necessities
Posted on 28 July 2022.
Fran Seeley, 81, doesn’t see herself as living on the edge of a financial crisis. But she’s uncomfortably close. Each month, Seeley, a retired teacher, gets $925 from Social Security and a $287 disbursement from an individual retirement account.
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Lowering Medicare Age Could Help Keep Older Americans Financially Stable
Posted on 20 September 2021.
Lowering the age when older adults can enroll in Medicare might save them a lot of money, even if the age drops only a year or two from the current age of 65, a new study suggests.
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Starving Seniors: How America Fails To Feed Its Aging
Posted on 07 September 2019.
Army veteran Eugene Milligan is 75 years old and blind. He uses a wheelchair since losing half his right leg to diabetes and gets dialysis for kidney failure.
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AHCA: War on Poverty Now a War on The Poor
Posted on 03 July 2017.
I was about to turn 17 when President Lyndon Baines Johnson declared a War On Poverty in his State of the Union speech in 1964. Johnson was responding to a national poverty rate at the time of around 19 percent
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