Opinion: Why the senior poverty rate keeps rising
With targeted tax increases on the wealthiest Americans, we can sustain and expand Social Security and Medicare, keeping the hounds of elder poverty at bay.
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With targeted tax increases on the wealthiest Americans, we can sustain and expand Social Security and Medicare, keeping the hounds of elder poverty at bay.
When we think of workers on Labor Day, who comes to mind? Chances are, it’s not the millions of older workers still toiling in our nation’s home care and nursing facilities, cleaning our office buildings, hustling around carrying boxes in big corporate warehouses, driving long-haul trucks or sweating in the fields to produce our food. […]
"After a lifetime of hard work and paying taxes, don’t our seniors deserve these basic protections and security?"
Christopher D. Cook is an award-winning investigative journalist based in San Francisco and author of Diet for a Dead Planet: Big Business and the Coming
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